History:

Lanett was originally the Town of Bluffton, incorporated on December 7, 1865, when it received it's charter from the  Alabama Legislature.  A new charter was sought from the state twenty eight years later.  Bluffton had grown and citizens of the town deemed fit to change it's name. 

The City of Lanett was founded on February 1, 1895 when a charter for the newly named City of Lanett was approved.  Lanett was named after two local textile mill developers,  Lafayette Lanier and Theodore Bennett.