Albany ( AWL-bə-nee) is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia. Located on the Flint River, it is the seat of Dougherty County, and is the sole incorporated city in that county. Located in southwest Georgia, it is the principal city of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan area. The population was 77,434 at the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the eighth-largest city in the state. It became prominent in the nineteenth century as a shipping and shout out center, first served by riverboats. Scheduled steamboats united Albany once the busy port of Apalachicola, Florida. They were replaced by railroads. Seven lines met in Albany, and it was a middle of trade in the Southeast. It is ration of the Black Belt, the extensive area in the Deep South of cotton plantations. From the mid-20th century, it normal military investment during World War II and after, that helped fabricate the region. Albany and this Place were prominent during the civil rights era, particularly during the prematurely 1960s as activists worked to regain voting and new civil rights. Railroad restructuring and point in the military here caused job losses, but the city has developed additional businesses.

Albany is located in a region which was long inhabited by the Creek Indians, who called it Thronateeska after their word for “flint”, the necessary mineral found in beds close the Flint River. They used it for making arrowheads and extra tools. In 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, and the United States made treaties to obliterate Creek and further Native American house claims in the Southeast. The US Army forcibly removed most of the indigenous peoples to Indian Territory, lands west of the Mississippi River.

European-American deal began bearing in mind Nelson Tift of Groton, Connecticut, who took estate along the Flint River in October 1836 after Indian removal. Tift and his colleagues named the further town Albany after the capital of New York; noting that New York’s Albany was a commercial middle located at the headwaters of the Hudson River, they hoped that their town near the headwaters of the Flint would prove to be just as successful. It proved to be nowhere close as prosperous. Alexander Shotwell laid out the town in 1836, and it was incorporated as a city by an conflict of the General Assembly of Georgia on December 27, 1838.

Tift was the city’s leading trailblazer for decades. An loving booster, he promoted education, business, and railroad construction. During the Civil War he provided naval supplies and helped construct two ships. He opposed Radical Reconstruction inside the let in and in Congress, and was scornful of the Yankee carpetbaggers who came in. Historian John Fair concludes that Tift became “more Southern than many natives.” His pro-slavery attitudes since the charge and his support for segregation like made him compatible in the same way as Georgia’s white elite.