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Eufaula is the largest city in Barbour County, Alabama, standing on bluffs above the Chattahoochee River directly across from Georgetown, Georgia.

The city takes its name from the Eufaulas, one of the Muscogee (Creek) tribes that occupied the site before American settlement.

The town was founded in the 1830s as Irwinton, named for merchant William Irwin, renamed Eufaula in 1842 or 1843 to end postal confusion with Irwinton, Georgia, and incorporated under that name in 1857.

By the late 1850s Eufaula had become a major cotton-shipping center, sending cargo down the Chattahoochee to Apalachicola and on to markets such as Liverpool and New York.

Eufaula's Seth Lore and Irwinton Historic District contains 667 contributing properties and is the second-largest historic district in Alabama.

The Shorter Mansion, built in 1884 by Eli Shorter, is now a museum whose second floor honors the six Alabama governors who came from Barbour County.

Fendall Hall, an Italianate mansion built between 1856 and 1860, is preserved as a house museum by the Alabama Historical Commission.

In 1963 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers created Walter F. George Lake, known locally as Lake Eufaula, restoring the city's role as an inland port.

Lake Eufaula is promoted as the "Big Bass Capital of the World," and the Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1964 along the lake, protects bald eagles, alligators, wood storks, and peregrine falcons.

The 2020 census counted 12,882 residents in Eufaula living in 5,323 households.