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LeRoy Pope (January 30, 1765 – June 17, 1844) was an American planter, lawyer, and early settler of Madison County, Alabama. He purchased much of the land on which downtown Huntsville, Alabama, now stands, and for his role in the establishment and early growth of that city, has been called the "Father of Huntsville." [1]
Mar 19, 2024 · LeRoy Pope was a cotton planter and attorney who founded Huntsville, Alabama, in 1809. He was also the first chief justice of Madison County and a prominent figure in the development of the town and the state.
Dec 22, 2014 · Why he's known as Leroy "Father of Huntsville" Pope. Although many people consider Huntsville to have been founded by its namesake John Hunt, Pope was the man who purchased the land and created...
Feb 24, 2021 · LeRoy Pope Walker, I discovered, was the first War secretary of the Confederate States of America and the husband of one of my ancestral cousins, named Eliza. Along with that knowledge came...
LeRoy Pope (1765-1844) was one of the founders of Huntsville and a member of the group of powerful planters and businessmen known as the Broad River Group, so called for their origins around the Broad River of northern Georgia.
Leroy M. T. Pope was among the first American settlers on the Cibolo watershed, in the new state of Texas, to pursue ranching rather than operating a plantation. He was born in 1822 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee to Jonathan Pope and Delilah Coulter.
Learn about the history of the first brick mansion in Alabama, built by LeRoy Pope, a Revolutionary War veteran and a prominent leader in Huntsville. The mansion was also a hospital and a headquarters during the Creek War and the Civil War.
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