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30 mar 2023 · Alabama steamboats were owned by companies and individuals throughout the nineteenth century. The earliest steamboat companies were the St. Stephens Steamboat Company, organized in 1818, the Steamboat Company of Alabama in 1820, and the Mobile Steamboat Company in 1821.
Alabama Maps Historical Map Index Contemporary Map Index Aerial Photography Index Interactive Maps Historical Places Web Atlas Cemeteries Web Atlas About This Site Contact Us. Historical Map Archive. ALABAMA. State Maps. Before 1820; 1820-1825; 1826-1835; 1836-1840; 1841-1845; 1846-1850; 1851-1855; 1856-1860; 1861-1865; 1866-1870; 1871-1875 ...
A new map of Alabama with its roads and distances from place to place along the stage and steam boat routes Publication Info: Philadelphia: Published by Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co., 1851
A new map of Alabama: with its roads & distances from place to place along the stage and steam boat routes Publication Info: Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1850
The Alabama, Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers have served as crucial trading routes for centuries, as seen in the highlights of this timeline.
With an abundance of navigable rivers in Alabama, steamboat traffic flourished and was the primary form of transportation for goods and people from the state’s founding into the 1880s. Many of the state’s most important towns developed along its rivers that funneled into Mobile Bay.
This collection contains a sampling of maps and architectural drawings from the extensive holdings at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. The maps span 300 years, documenting not only Alabama's geographic past, but also that of the region, nation, and continent.
