page_title: Aigleville, Alabama
hierarchical_section_title: Aigleville, Alabama
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Les travaux d'Aigleville capitale des Etats de Marengo sur les bords du Tombechbé commandes par le general Lefebvre Desnouettes. English: Construction of Aigleville, capital of the state of Marengo, on the banks of the Tombechbé, directed by General Lefebvre-Desnouettes.
context_page_description: Aigleville, literally translated as Eagle Town, was a town on the Black Warrior River in Marengo County, Alabama, United States that is now a ghost town. The settlement was established in late 1818 by former French Bonapartists and refugees from Saint-Domingue, as a part of their Vine and Olive Colony. It was named in honor of the French Imperial Eagle, the standard used by the Grande Armée of Napoleon I. The location of the settlement is now within the present city of Demopolis.
context_section_description: Aigleville, literally translated as Eagle Town, was a town on the Black Warrior River in Marengo County, Alabama, United States that is now a ghost town.  The settlement was established in late 1818 by former French Bonapartists and refugees from Saint-Domingue, as a part of their Vine and Olive Colony.  It was named in honor of the French Imperial Eagle, the standard used by the Grande Armée of Napoleon I. The location of the settlement is now within the present city of Demopolis.
caption: Parisian engraving from 1819 of the building of the Aigleville settlement, directed by General Lefèbvre-Desnoëttes. Note the erroneous inclusion of palm trees, which are not found in central Alabama.
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