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  • Collection: Farming and Agricultural Activities

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The Tuscaloosa County Livestock Market held its first auction on August 9, 1939 in Northport with almost 600 heads of livestock to be auctioned.

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Five of the men who helped bring this king-size sycamore log out of the woods of Tuscaloosa County are (left to right) J.D. King, logger and lumberman; John Smelley, sawmill operator; Trimm (W. T.) Hamner, veteran logger; John Stillwell, trucker; and…

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The sycamore log felled in Tuscaloosa County measures 72 inches in diameter across the butt of the log and 58 inches on the other end. The tree was 65 feet tall, taking four hours and 20 minutes to fell. Then it took the whole day to skid the log 350…
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