River history, floods, parks, wildlife, geology.
During the 1820s, increasing numbers of steamboats were beginning to arrive from New Orleans. Businesses and the merchants in Tuscumbia, Alabama knew that developing a steamboat landing at the bottom of the Muscle Shoals was of utmost importance to the…
From early Indian water navigation in canoes, to settlers traveling downriver in flatboats that carried their supplies, river transportation saw improvements as needs changed. Watercraft on the Tennessee River continuously improved up to the invention of steamboats, which opened up…
In the early months of 1890, a valuable mineral spring was discovered in East Florence. These waters were analyzed and deemed so important that a stock company was quickly formed to take full advantage of them. Incorporated on May 23,…