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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VVD_jesse-james-gang-canal-payroll-robbery-trial-of-frank-james-historical_Killen-AL.html
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Jesse James Gang
Canal Payroll Robbery
March 1881
In, 1881, approximately three miles south of here, U. S. Corps of Engineers was constructing the Muscle Shoals Canal along the north side of the Tennessee River. On March 11, 1881, Ale…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PIE_mitchell-town-community_Killen-AL.html
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Approximately 1.5 miles north of here, across Bluewater Creek near CR76, is the location of an early settlement known as Mitchell Town named for the Mitchells who settled there. In 1833, Samuel Herston owned land in the area which became…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JZX_center-centre-star_Killen-AL.html
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Center Star was spelled Centre Star into the 1900s. The name evolved from the US Postal Service, which served remote areas by "star routes." The Post Office here, which existed from 1850 to 1914 (except between 1902 and 1913), was the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNIE_town-of-killen_Killen-AL.html
[Side 1:] The area known as Killen in Lauderdale County, was settled in the early 1800s. In 1826, Joseph Mason was appointed the first postmaster of the new community called Masonville, later to become Killen. The post office existed until 1866.I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIXR_muscle-shoals-canal_Killen-AL.html
Lock Six, headquarters of Muscle Shoals Canal, was located 1.3 miles south of here. An 1836 attempt to build a bypass canal around the shoals proved unsuccessful. On November 10, 1890 the canal from Rogersville to Florence was successfully complet…