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Eutaw is a city and the county seat of Greene County in the Black Belt region of west-central Alabama, and it is part of the Tuscaloosa Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Greene County was created on December 13, 1819, and named for Revolutionary War hero General Nathanael Greene.

Eutaw was settled around the time the county was created and was originally known as Mesopotamia.

In 1838 Greene County voters moved the county seat from Erie, on the Black Warrior River, to escape the flooding and disease that plagued that town, and Eutaw was laid out in December 1838.

The town changed its name to Eutaw to honor Greene's Revolutionary War victory at the Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, and it was incorporated on January 2, 1841.

As the county seat, Eutaw became the mercantile and legal center of the Black Belt during the antebellum cotton era.

Eutaw has twenty-seven antebellum structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places, twenty-three of them included in the Antebellum Homes in Eutaw multiple property submission.

Kirkwood, a Greek Revival plantation mansion begun in 1857 by cotton planter and broker Foster M. Kirksey, was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1934 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

The Coleman-Banks House, built in 1847, is another of Eutaw's individually listed antebellum landmarks.

Each October, the Greene County Historical Society hosts the Eutaw Pilgrimage, opening the town's historic homes and structures to visitors.