· August 7, 2026
Nectar Covered Bridge
A 385-foot, four-span Town Lattice truss bridge over the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River, built in 1934 under […]
Glossary Type: Place
· August 7, 2026
Horton Mill Bridge
Built over the Calvert Prong of the Locust Fork, five miles north of Oneonta, replacing an 1894 bridge that served […]
· August 7, 2026
Mont Eyrie Orchards
Edward J. Bryan‘s roughly 2,600-acre peach and apple operation, built starting in 1903 around Reid’s Gap and entirely dependent on […]
· August 7, 2026
Rickwood Caverns State Park
A real cave system that opened commercially in 1954; the state acquired it in 1974. A new access road and […]
· August 7, 2026
Black Warrior Road
An early road tracing the Creek removal era in Blount County, running through territory once part of the Creek Confederacy. […]
· August 7, 2026
The Bee Line Highway
Built starting in the 1920s by converting the old L&N rail bed into a highway after the railroad’s 1914-15 relocation […]
· August 7, 2026
Mt High (Highmound)
A small community about 2 miles from Smoke Rise. No dedicated History post exists for it yet, but real research […]
· August 7, 2026
Nectar
A west Blount County town that predates 1819 statehood. First named Tidmore, for postmaster Henry Tidmore; renamed Nectar in 1902. […]
· August 7, 2026
Bangor
A community north of Blount Springs. Home to Bangor Cave, a real cave that operated as an underground nightclub from […]
· August 7, 2026
Ricetown
A farming community just west of Blount Springs, documented directly in a Mary Gordon Duffee letter already cited on the […]