Workers organize bales of cotton on a barge on the Warrior River in this photo from the 1930s. Rivers provided the most cost-effective and efficient means of transporting cotton to the Port of Mobile until the advent of trucking.
Cotton Barge on the Warrior River
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Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
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