We had such a fun morning hiking to Tuscumbia Landing Saturday morning. We really lucked out with the weather being fresh and cool, and no rain! Thanks everyone for joining us! 

We were able to see part of the site where the Ammonium Nitrate plant was (though it is quite overgrown with foliage). This building was placed away from The Village and the other buildings, as it was a highly explosive material and process. 

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The Tuscumbia Landing Site is a historic port site near Sheffield, Alabama. The landing was established in 1824 at the mouth of Spring Creek on the Tennessee River. As large craft could not navigate Spring Creek to reach Tuscumbia, the landing was built to transfer goods to and from the town. The New Orleans and Tuscumbia Steamboat Company was created in 1825, and connected The Shoals with towns on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Wagons were used to haul goods between the landing and the town until a horse-drawn railroad, the first railroad west of the Appalachian Mountains, was built from 1831 to 1832. The line was later extended to Decatur in 1834, bypassing the treacherous shoals on the Tennessee River, and was renamed the Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur Railroad. The landing was also a stop for many Muscogee and Cherokee along the Trail of Tears. 

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