Hernando de Soto claimed this area for Spain in 1540.

French settlers came in 1717 when they established Fort Toulouse.
In 1817 President John Quincy Adams sold 321 acres of land to Dr. James Gustine.
In 1819 the settlements of East Alabama and New Philadelphia merged to form the city of Montgomery.
The land that now makes up Capitol Heights stayed in the Gustine family until February 1836 when a part of the land was sold to Thomas G. Vickers.
Mr. Vickers gave his son J. Hiram Vickers the area known today as Capitol Heights in November, 1833. [Not sure how he could have given the land to his son prior to receiving ownership, but that's what the records say]
Montgomery was chosen in 1846 to be the state capital.
In 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as the president of the Confederacy in Montgomery.
In October 1889, J. Hiram sold the land to William Davis and Thomas Scott.
In 1904 a strip of land 100 feet wide through the land was dedicated to Montgomery County for the express purpose of building an electric railroad.
The land must always be used for public transit or it reverts back to its owners.
Today that strip of land is Madison Avenue.
The Remainder of the land was sold to Albert F. Wilson, James S. Pinkard and Massey Wilson for $25,000 in 1904.
On November 29, 1904 Pinkard and the others started Capitol Heights Development Company.
The land was broken up in Blocks and Lots and called Capitol Heights.