LaFayette is the county seat of Chambers County, Alabama, United States, 47 miles northwest of Columbus, Georgia. As of the 2010 cen…LaFayette is the county seat of Chambers County, Alabama, United States, 47 miles northwest of Columbus, Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 3,003. Chambers County was formed in 1832. The newly elected county officials opted to locate the county seat as near as possible to the center of the county. Lots for the new town were auctioned in October 1833, with proceeds from the sale financing the construction of a courthouse and jail. The town was first called "Chambersville", but by the time of incorporation on January 7, 1835, the town name had been changed to "Lafayette", named after the Marquis de Lafayette; its spelling was changed to "LaFayette" due to the influence of newspaper editor Johnson J. Hooper, who created a fictional character called Captain Simon Suggs, a backwoods southerner who pronounced the town's name as "La Fait". The city's newspaper, The LaFayette Sun, was founded under the name The Alabama Standard in April 1841 and adopted its current name on August 3, 1881.
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