In this photo from 1914, a pulley lifts a large rock during the construction of the Bankhead Lock and Dam on the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa County. Named for Alabama Sen. John H. Bankhead, the original Bankhead Dam was finished in 1915 as the last of 17 locks between Mobile and Birmingham. The current lock was completed in 1975, although some of the original dam structure still exists.
Photo courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Do you have a photo you’d like us to consider for Historic Alabama? Send it to Erica West at [email protected]. This appeared in the October 2021 issue of Business Alabama.
