Northern Terminus Indian Creek Canal

First Canal in Alabama

Incorporated 1820

Completed 1831

This canal was constructed to the Tennessee River to facilitate the transportation of cotton to market. Developers were: Thomas Fearn, LeRoy Pope, Stephen S. Ewing, Henry Cook, and Samuel Hazard.

Marker can be reached from Spragins Avenue Northwest east of Church Street Northwest.

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