When Was Alabama First Settled?
1702. In 1702 the French founded the first permanent European settlement in Alabama, at Fort Louis, north of present-day Mobile. Who were the first families to settle in Alabama? The first permanent European settlers in Alabama were French. The LeMoyne brothers, Pierre LeMoyne, Sieur d’Iberville, and Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienville, sailed into Mobile …
