Chasing the Black Warrior Road
A thin line on an 1818 map led me to a Creek town, a vanished road, and a question I am still trying to answer: which way did the Black Warrior Road run through Brown's Valley?
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The Silk Farm That Named the Mulberry Fork
A silk farm at Blount Springs that never made silk, the Goffe brothers who ran the resort, and the 1851 U.S. Supreme Court case that records how it ended.
Blue Hole, Waterfalls USA, and Country Boy Eddie
The 20th-century swimming hole and roadside attraction that outlived the Blount Springs resort.
Black History at Blount Springs
A Louisiana legislator's landmark 1884 visit, a 6,000-person picnic, a thriving Black landowning community next door, and the named and unnamed people whose labor ran the resort.
The Lime Kilns of Blount Springs
An old kiln still standing near Highway 31 marks a real industrial history at Blount Springs -- a lime-and-quarry operation that cost two rail workers their lives and, per an 1885 state report, ran on convict labor.
A Near Birmingham Resort - Blount Springs
A 1921 case for Blount Springs' revival, published in the Birmingham Age-Herald - the resort's history, its assets, and its two occupied graves.
An Autumn Day at the Old Home Town
A 1915 dispatch from Blount Springs, published in the Birmingham Age-Herald less than a year after the resort's second hotel fire.
Zelma Clyde Tidwell, Blount County’s Bridge Builder
Nearly every covered bridge Blount County ever built came out of one man’s career. Zelma Clyde Tidwell was born February […]
Col. J.F.B. Jackson: The Man Behind the Jackson House
Georgia sheriff, Confederate colonel, railroad builder, owner of the Jackson House at Blount Springs, Birmingham gas and street car pioneer, and the road superintendent who laid out Jefferson County's highways. His story, with a timeline and the newspaper pages behind it.
Philip Henson: The Southern Union Spy from Blount Springs
Philip Henson was born December 28, 1827, in Blount Springs. By the time he died in 1911, he’d spied on […]