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Shadrach Mims, in his History of Autauga County proclaimed that, " James Jackson, Esq., a far-seeing and sagacious gentleman, settled one mile north of where Independence now stands."
Jackson formed around him a settlement, consisting of his son-in-law, Captain Lunsford Long, his father-in-law, Robert Motley, and others. He, Jackson, represented Autauga County in the convention in Huntsville on July 5, 1819, that formed the State of Alabama.
In 1836, Independence began to decline and, according to Mims, "like one with pulmonary consumption, it dwindled until 1840 when, as a village affording mercantile accommodations, it breathed its last." Until that time, the town was the site of a tanyard, a grocery, a blacksmith and woodshop. Today, little remains to tell of the once important village.
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