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Our History In 1970 the Alabama Historical Commission in an effort to encourage smaller communities throughout the state to collect record and preserve their local histories instituted statewide organizational meetings of interested citizens. One such meeting was held in Wetumpka and led by the late Jeanette E. Barrett former Wetumpka mayor and employee of the Alabama Historical Commission. The organizational meeting was attended by six or eight people who thought it was important to organize a local historical society and the Elmore County Historical Society was formed.