In a message dated 3/28/99 11:03:40 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Did the counties or the state maintain a school census of parents & > students in the 1820's-1840's? I don't have an "official" answer to your question, but Alabama became a state in 1819 and didn't have a statewide public school system until much later. The schools that existed in 1820-1840 were mostly private schools. Angela