Ranking of Oldest SEC Cities

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And before you get all up in arms, no I did not include the Native American settlements that were destroyed/ relocated prior to white inhabitants (looking at you Tuscaloosa)

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Tuscaloosa was first settled in 1812, they were just incorporated as a city upon Alabama's admission to the Union. Only Huntsville and Mobile are older in terms of major cities

Baton Rouge wasn't incorporated until 1817.

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I'm pretty sure that was when the name was changed to Starkville. Was called Boredtown before then.

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A quick search reveals that Boardtown was formed in 1830 after the land was seized from the Choctaw Indians.

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Ranking of Oldest SEC Cities


Baton Rouge wasn't incorporated until 1817.

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The European-American history of Baton Rouge dates from 1699, when French explorer Sieur d'Iberville leading an exploration party up the Mississippi River saw a reddish cypress pole festooned with bloody animals that marked the boundary between the Houma and Bayou Goula tribal hunting grounds. They called the pole and its location le bâton rouge, or the red stick. The local Native American name for the site was Istrouma. (See Creek War for discussion of Red Sticks as related to Creek group.)

From evidence found along the Mississippi, Comite, and Amite rivers, and in three Native American mounds remaining in the city, archaeologists have been able to date indigenous habitation of the Baton Rouge area to 8000 BC.[4] The mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period, perhaps as early as 4500 BC, more than a thousand years before the pyramids of Egypt were begun.[5]

The settlement of Baton Rouge by Europeans began in 1719 when Baton Rouge was established as a military post by the French. During the French colonial period, most settlement and agricultural development was concentrated in the area of New Orleans, which became a port for the colony.


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so why do you have some as date of incorporation and some as settlements?

Pop quiz, what is the oldest City in Mississippi?