Flowing Through Time: A History of the Lower Chattahoochee River PDF
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CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY LEGACY SERIES Lynn Willoughby Lower Chattahoochee THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS Tuscaloosa Published in Cooperation with The Historic Chattahoochee Commission and The Columbus Museum Copyright © 1999 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Hardcover edition published 1999. Paperback and eBook editions published 2012. Typeface: Caslon Cover design: Gary Gore ()() The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8173-5725-2 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8173-8634-4 A previous edition of this book has been catalogued by the Library of Congress as follows: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Willoughby, Lynn, 1951- Flowing through time: a history of the lower Chattahoochee River / Lynn Willoughby. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8173-0934-9 (paper meets minimum requirements) 1. Chattahoochee River-History. 2. Chattahoochee River Valley-History.!. Title. F292.C4 W55 1999 975.8-ddc2l 98-19771 Publication is made possible in part through the generous support of the Historic Chattahoochee Commission To John Samuel LupoId CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments Xl Introduction I The Ancients 4 2 The Scramble for Muscogee 19 3 Along the White Frontier 47 4 A Land of Cotton 65 5 The Civil War Years 83 6 Moonlight and Magnolias 101 7 Workin' the River 117 8 The Business of Steamboating 132 9 River Power 150 10 Troubled Waters I75 II Will the Water Last? 182 Notes 191 Bibliography 213 Index 225 RLlLU§TRATRON§ MAPS Chattahoochee Valley archaeological sites 6 Indian sites and white settlements 20 Antebellum railroads and the Chattahoochee Valley 66 Modern-day towns along the Chattahoochee I02 Dams on the lower Chattahoochee River PHOTOGRAPHS Sculpture found in the Chattahoochee Valley 7 Sculpture found in the Chattahoochee Valley 9 Dog pot found at Bull Creek archaeological site 9 Cemochechobee archaeological site IO Mississippian -period mound IO Creek square ground 13 The falls of the Chattahoochee in I838 48 Columbus in I838 5I The side-wheeler Lowell at Mary Freeman Landing 54 Columbus in I868 I03 I886 perspective map of Columbus I03 The Naiad I07 Women posing on the Queen City I09 Chattahoochee excursion barge II3 List of Chattahoochee steamboat landings II8 The Queen City at Fort Gaines II9 The W S. Holt at the Columbus wharf I24 The Hard Times unloading cotton downriver I24 The Three States loading freight I25 The Queen City loading with cotton I25 The City ojE ufaula loading with cotton I26 Loading cotton at the Columbus dock I26
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