Black Warrior River
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The Black Warrior River is a waterway in west-central Alabama in the southeastern United States. The river rises in the extreme southern edges of the Appalachian Highlands and flows 178 miles to the T
The Black Warrior River passes by a park in downtown Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Hugh R. Thomas Bridge is seen in the background
Bankhead Lock and Dam, impounding Bankhead Lake in Tuscaloosa County
Holt Lock and Dam, impounding Holt Lake in Tuscaloosa County
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Survey of the Black Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers
Tuskaloosa
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Tuskaloosa was the leader of a polity bearing his name in what is now the U.S. state of Alabama. His people were ancestors to the several southern Native American confederacies who later emerged in th
Black Warrior River
…Highlands and flows 178 miles (286 km) to the Tombigbee River, of which the Black Warrior is the primary tributary. The river is named after the Tuskaloosa leader of the Tuskaloosa polity bearing his name, whose name was Muskogean for 'Black Warrior'. The Black Warrior is impounded along nearly its entire…
Chief Tuskaloosa in an illustration by H. Roe
Artist's conception of the Taskigi Site
Artist's conception of the burning of Mabila, illustration by H. Roe