Milner County

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Milner County was a proposed new county to be created by splitting off the northernmost section of Jefferson County and combining it with some of the southern portion of Blount County and the southeastern portion of Walker County. The name was chosen to honor state senator John T. Milner. The proposed county seat would be in Warrior.

The idea was put forward in 1888, mainly citing the great size of Jefferson County, the backlog in the docket of the Jefferson County Circuit Court and the inconvenient geography of Blount County. A reporter for the Weekly Age-Herald found a political justification for the scheme. In his estimation, the cession of the most Republican-leaning section of Walker County would strengthen the Democratic Party in that county without threatening to gain any serious power in the new county.

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