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Spring Park (Tuscumbia, Alabama)

USA / Alabama / Tuscumbia / Tuscumbia, Alabama
Located adjacent to downtown Tuscumbia, AL, Spring Park is one of the more picturesque sites in the Shoals Area. Tuscumbia Big Spring Big Spring (average daily flow 35,000,000 gallons) provided water for town founded on its banks. Michael Dickson of Tennessee was first settler (about 1817). Town laid out in 1819 and incorporated as Ococoposo (Cold Water, 1820). Name changed to Tuscumbia (1822) for a Chickasaw Indian. Confederate and Union soldiers camped here intermittently during wartime. (1861~1865). Site of Tennessee Valley Fair in the 1800's, later Colbert County Fair until 1930's.
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Coordinates:   34°43'43"N   87°42'15"W
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