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Cotton Slide @ Prairie Bluff, Alabama River

Found neat picture of Civil War era "cotton slide" taken in 1894. It was on the Alabama River at Prairie Bluff, Wilcox Co., AL that reached its' peak in 1861 then a ghost town by 1900. This was a local hub of activity before and during the war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prairie_Bluff.jpg

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