Fort Payne is a city in and county seat of DeKalb County, in northeastern Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 14,877. The city developed around a fort of the same name, built in the 1830s to intern Cherokee people who were being rounded up by the military before being forcibly removed to Indian Territory in 1838 on what they called the Trail of Tears.
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