Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Fort Payne, AL

Fort Payne is a city in northeastern Alabama and the county seat of DeKalb County, set in the valley below Lookout Mountain.

The city grew around a fort built in the 1830s that was used to intern Cherokee people rounded up before their forced removal west in 1838 on the Trail of Tears; the fort's ruins are still visible in the historic downtown.

Fort Payne was established in 1889 and grew rapidly in the late nineteenth century on the strength of the area's coal and iron resources and the arrival of industry.

The 2020 census counted 14,877 people in Fort Payne, up from 14,012 in 2010, making it the largest city in DeKalb County.

Fort Payne is the "Official Sock Capital of the World": at the start of the twenty-first century roughly 100 mills employing some 7,000 workers produced nearly half of the world's socks, though production has since declined under competition from China.

The Grammy-winning country supergroup Alabama is based in Fort Payne, and the city is home to the band's official fan club and museum.

The National Park Service keeps its headquarters for the nearby Little River Canyon National Preserve in Fort Payne; the 14,000-acre preserve, established by Congress in 1992, protects one of the deepest canyons east of the Mississippi atop Lookout Mountain.

Little River Falls, just upstream from the canyon, lies in Fort Payne, and DeSoto State Park and its waterfall are a short drive up Lookout Mountain.

DeKalb County, of which Fort Payne is the seat, was created on January 9, 1836, and was once home to Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee syllabary, at Wills Town.