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  • Collection: Transportation

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Mobile & Ohio train wreck near the city limits of Tuscaloosa around 6th Street, 7th Street & 8th Street bridges near Capitol Park.

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The drawbridge that connected Northport and Tuscaloosa was built in 1922 at a cost of about $200,000 and was the sixth bridge built over the Black Warrior River at Tuscaloosa. S.P. "Bill" Faucett, of Northport, was the first motorist to cross the new…

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The first automobile in Tuscaloosa County to be issued a license plate is parked (probably) at Mr. Persinger's warehouse on the Warrior River. The car was said to have license plate number 1.

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Frances and John C. Foster on Lady Jane Grey in front of the Murfee-Caples House, 185 17th Ave.

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The streetcar stops at the corner of Broad Street (now University Boulevard) and Greensboro Avenue in front of Brown's Dollar Store that later became Brown's Department Store.

Streetcar service began in 1883 with the arrival of the town’s first…

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Train that ran for the DeBardeleben Coal and Iron Company which was incorporated in 1886.

DeBardeleben formed a partnership to open slope and shaft mines. Constructing railroad lines from mines used exclusively for the company's own purposes,…

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A team of oxen hauls a load of logs down Broad Street at 23rd Avenue. The First National Bank is in the background. Note the condition of the city's main street.

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This excursion boat is at Lock 17 on the Black Warrior River near Tuscaloosa.

In 1886, the U. S. Congress authorized constructing three locks overcoming the Tuscaloosa Falls, a series of rock rapids falling 25 feet in about two miles. Locks 1, 2,…

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The Mobile & Ohio (M&O) Railroad trestle is a wooden and steel truss bridge that was constructed across the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa for the M&O Railroad in 1898. Civil engineer Benjamin Hardaway, an 1887 graduate of the University of…

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The drawbridge across the Black Warrior River at dusk.

The drawbridge that connected Northport and Tuscaloosa was built in 1922 at a cost of about $200,000 and was the sixth bridge built over the Black Warrior River at Tuscaloosa. S.P. "Bill"…
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