In Spring 2009, BG and I set about visiting all of the locks and dams of Alabama’s Black Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers and the Alabama portions of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. That Dam Project is my effort to chronicle our visits and share what I’ve learned along the way.
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I don’t know when or why I became fascinated with locks, the mechanisms by which boats navigate changes in river levels.
Fascinated I am, though, and when my boyfriend BG told me that, in the adjacent county, there is a visitor’s center featuring exhibits on the locks and dams of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (TTW), my curiosity was piqued. Since then, BG and I have visited the center, the lock and dam at which it is located, and two locks and dams on the nearby Black Warrior River. It’s my hope to visit all of the locks and dams on the Black Warrior, Tombigbee, and Tenn-Tom.
I plan to write a couple of posts about the rivers, the Waterway, and the sites we’ve visited. I’m also playing around with some mashups that will allow me to overlay our trip photos on a map. For now, here’s a shot from our July 3 visit to the Tom Bevill Lock and Dam:
Tom Bevill Lock and Dam (Pickensville, AL)
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