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TITLE:
Linn Crossing Trestle Bridge, Spanning County Road 71, Linn Crossing, Jefferson County, AL
CALL NUMBER:
HAER ALA,37-LICRO,1-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 1 (5 x 7 in.)
Data Page(s): 1 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.
CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
RELATED NAME(S):
Benz, Sue, transmitter
NOTE:
Survey number HAER AL-62
Significance: Approximately 15 to 20 frame residences remain today, along with the wooden trestle bridge that still carries coal trains from nearby Jim Walter Nebo and Chetopa mines over the former Southern Railway tracks. In the 1890s, only seven families lived between Linn Crossing and Adamsville. Settlement at the crossing dates to 1880, when the Linn family cemetery was established on a high knoll near the crossing. Adjacent to the cemetery the white frame Antioch Baptist Church, the religious and social hub of the community, now stands. By 1887, the Georgia Pacific (later Southern) Railroad extended through the Linn farmlands and people came from miles around to board trains bound for Birmingham and Atlanta. In 1903, the L. & N. extended the Cane Creek Branch of the Birmingham Mineral Railroad to Banner, further opening the area to mining. The two railroads crossed at this small community that had grown to 15 or 20 frame structures.
SUBJECTS:
ALABAMA--Jefferson County--Linn Crossing
bridges
trestles
OTHER TITLE:
Birmingham Industrial District
COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.al1072
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. EXTERIOR VIEW LOOKING WEST ALONG JEFFERSON COUNTY 71 WITH RAILROAD BRIDGE (RIGHT), SADDLEBAG COTTAGE (LEFT) AND COAL TRUCK.
CONTROL #:
AL1072
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