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Plaque A 85-90 Million Years Old Possibly a Bald Cypressfrom the Cretaceous Period or the Age of Dinosaurs Plaque B325 Million Years Old A Member of the Giant Club Mosses from the early Coal Age
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJIF_cold-water-falls_Tuscumbia-AL.html
World's Largest Man-Made Natural Stone Waterfallto be known in existence80 feet wide, 48 feet tall1,780 tons of Colbert County Sandstone4,320,000 gallons of water per day passes over fallsLargest stone weights 77,000 pounds
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Panel 1Tuscumbia and much of the Shoals area played an integral part in the "Trail of Tears" with the Tennessee River route and the overland routes. In 1825, the U.S. Government formally adopted a removal policy, which was carried out extensively …
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Side AYellow Fever Epidemic1878Taking 31 Lives in Tuscumbia Citizen's Relief Committee:F.H. Aydlett, H.M. Finley, J.J. Davis, James Jackson, Chm. J.W. Rand Jr., F.A. Ross, J.N. Sampson, Sec. and C. A. Womble. This committee, together with vo…
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The Family Home of Captain Arthur M. & Kate Adams Keller was build 1820, being the second house erected in Tuscumbia.Here on June 27, 1880 was born America's First Lady of CourageHelen Adams Keller
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Howell Thomas Heflin retired from a lifetime of distinguished public service in 1997, having served Alabama in the U.S. Senate for three consecutive terms. There he was known as a national leader on judicial, agricultural, defense, and space issue…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ10_american-indian-history_Tuscumbia-AL.html
Side 1Oka Kapassa (Ococoposa), meaning "Cold Water", was the Chickasaw name given to Spring Creek and to a trading post established near the Tennessee River about 1780. About 1817, Michael Dickerson and others were greeted at what by then was call…
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22 structures, first Northwest Alabama historic district placed on National Register of Historic Places (1973): Courthouse, erected 1881, shows Italianate and Greek Revival influences. Fifth Street, Commercial Row, seven adjoining brick structures…
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Side 1After the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, General Andrew Jackson proposed this road as a shorter and improved route for military movements between Nashville and New Orleans. The U.S. War Department authorized Jackson to appoint an engineer an…
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Tuscumbia Big SpringBig Spring (average daily flow 35,000,000 gallons) provided water for town founded on its banks. Michael Dickson of Tennessee was first settler (about 1817). Town laid out in 1819 and incorporated as Ococoposo (Cold Water, 1820…
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