sentences:  The town was first called Athenson, but was incorporated as Athens after the ancient city in Greece.The town's first mayor was Samuel Tanner, and the Tanner area, south of Athens, was named on his behalf.The Athens area was the home of William Wyatt Bibb, the first governor of Alabama, and its second governor, his brother Thomas Bibb, who succeeded him in office when he died in a fall from his horse.