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Black Water & Tombigbee Waterway |
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Black
Warrior River
A description of the river system and history of
its canal development. Map and current photos included.
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Black
Warrior-Tombigbee River Systems
A description of the river system and a brief
history of its canal development.
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Black
Warrior & Tombigbee Waterway
A link to a description and the historical
significance of the waterway.
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Colbert Shoals Canal |
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Minutes
of the House of Representatives, Dec. 30, 1827
Legislative action regarding the Muscle and
Colbert Shoals canal company.
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Coosa River Navigation |
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Coosa
River Navigation
A link to a description and the historical
significance of the waterway.
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Fearn Canal |
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Madison
County Treasures
Painting of the Fearn Canal, circa 1850.
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Indian
Creek Canal
Text of a state historical marker, for the first
canal in Alabama.
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Fearn
Canal (Indian Creek Navigation Co.)
A brief history and physical description of the canal.
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Muscle Shoals
Canal (Tennessee Canal) |
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1825
Letter from Governor William Carroll
Letter from Alabama Governor William Carroll to
Georgia Governor George M. Troup, requesting information about
undertaking a project to construct a canal to connect the Hiwassee
River to the Coosa River, as well as the practicability of a canal
around the muscle shoals in the Tennessee .
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An
act to incorporate the Muscle Shoals Canal Company
1828 acts to incorporate several canal companies,
including the Muscle Shoals Canal Company.
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George
Washington Goethals
Biography of George Washington Golethals. After
the Spanish-American War he was placed in charge of the Muscle Shoals
canal construction.
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History
of the Twin Rivers
A brief history of commercial navigation
development on the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers.
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Lauderdale
County, Alabama - History of the Shoals - Antebellum Period
History of the Muscle Shoals area prior to the
Civil War.
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Lauderdale
County, Alabama History of the Shoals - Industrial Revolution
History of the reconstruction of the canal in the
1870s and 1880s
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Maps
of the Muscle Shoals Canal
Several maps of the canal, dating from the 1880s
and 1890s.
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Muscle
Shoals
A brief history of the canal.
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Muscle
Shoals Canal
A brief history and physical description of the first Tennessee
(Muscle Shoals) Canal.
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Pickwick
Lock
A brief history of the canals and locks
constructed around the Muscle Shoals.
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Postcards
Historical photos of the canal
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The
Muscle Shoals Canal
A brief history of the canal. Historical photos.
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The
Muscle Shoals Canal
Brief history of the canal. Links to related web sites.
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General |
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George
Washington Goethals
A brief history of Mr. Goethals' role in the
rebuilding of the Muscle Shoals Canal and construction of the Colbert Canal.
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Tennessee
River
Brief histories of the canals bypassing the
Muscle, Colbert and Bee Tree Shoals.
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The
Southern Canal Lecture - 1873
Link to a .pdf file of a lecture by Professor
H.E. Colton on the "Feasibility of a Southern Canal from the
Valley of the Mississippi to the Atlantic".
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Wheeler
Lock
A brief history of the canals and locks
constructed around the Muscle Shoals.
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