Town of Bluffton, Alabama, also, City of Lanett, Alabama. Chartered February 20, 1866, also, Chartered February 1, 1895. , Bluffton was the name of a village adjacent to West Point, Georgia in Chambers County, Alabama. Bluffton was incorporated as a town by an Act of the Alabama Legislature and approved February 20, 1866. It is not known who gave it the name of Bluffton, but the name is descriptive and apt for the town's location on a bluff near the ancient river bed of the Chattahoochee River. Twenty-eight years after incorporation, a new charter was sought from the State of Alabama because Bluffton had grown and citizens of the town decided to change its name. The name was changed from Bluffton to Lanett., Reverse Side , On December 7, 1865, the Alabama Legislature granted an Act of Incorporation to the town of Bluffton, Alabama, predecessor to the town of Lanett. A charter was granted Bluffton, stating in less than a thousand words the duties, responsibilities and the powers inherent in the Act. It was necessary to hold an election, concerning which a record is preserved in the Chambers County records at LaFayette, Alabama, in Volume I, page 74, Corporation Records. Jude of Probate Lloyd Robertson certified to the following, under his "hand and seal" on August 17, 1893: "I do hereby certify that G.N. Croft, D.H. Adams and K. Lanier, who were appointed inspectors of an election to be held in Bluffton on August 14, 1893, for the purpose of changing the name of Bluffton to Lanett and to incorporate said town. The charter for the newly named Town of Lanett was approved. Hence the area has evolved from the simple village of Bluffton to the present industrial City of Lanett.