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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 drawbridge connecting Tuscaloosa and Northport is reflected in the Black Warrior River. The Mobile & Ohio Railroad Bridge is in the background.

The drawbridge that connected Northport and Tuscaloosa was built in 1922 at a cost of about…

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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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A drawbridge over the Black Warrior River that connected Northport to Tuscaloosa was used until late 1973 when the new Hugh Thomas Bridge was opened.

The drawbridge was built in 1922 at a cost of $196,511 on pillars that had been there since 1897.…

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A photo of the 1882 King Bowstring Bridge reassembled and located in the Van de Graaff Park, 3231 Robert Cardinal Road, Northport.The original bridge which connected Northport and Tuscaloosa over the Black Warrior River was built starting in December…

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This covered bridge was located about 5 miles south of Brookwood, Ala., on Covered Bridge Road. It was thought to built about 1850 and was destroyed by fire in 1962. It was the last covered bridge in Tuscaloosa County.

The bridge was constructed…

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This covered bridge was located about 5 miles south of Brookwood, Ala., on Covered Bridge Road. It was thought to built about 1850 and was destroyed by fire in 1962. It was the last covered bridge in Tuscaloosa County.

The bridge was constructed…

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This covered bridge was located about 5 miles south of Brookwood, Ala., on Covered Bridge Road. It was thought to built about 1850 and was destroyed by fire in 1962. It was the last covered bridge in Tuscaloosa County.

The bridge was constructed…

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The Hugh R. Thomas Bridge is a six-lane girder bridge that spans the Black Warrior River between Tuscaloosa and Northport. The bridge is part of both U.S. Route 43 and Alabama State Route 69. By the mid-1960s the old drawbridge that was built in 1922…

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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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