Via Billy
High price of cotton brought immigrants
The high price of cotton during the years
following the close of the War of 1812 gave Alabama her first great
influx of population. During 1818, land sales in Alabama reached a peak.
The competition for good cotton acreage at Government auctions created
comment throughout the country.
Birth of river towns
The planting of cotton along the rivers of Alabama gave birth to
several towns between 1815 and 1818. St. Stephens was the head of the
schooner navigation on the Tombigbee. It was a bustling community when
Mobile was still in the hands of the Spain.
Above St. Stephens, Tuscaloosa was located at the head of boat
navigation on the Black Warrior, and from there overland trade continued
between Jones Valley to the Valley of the Tennessee.
Claiborne is now a ghost town
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