Linn Crossing Trestle Bridge, Spanning County Road 71, Linn Crossing, Jefferson County, AL. Surveyed as HAER ALA,37-LICRO,1-, with a 289-word written history.
“Linn Crossing Trestle Bridge, Spanning County Road 71, Linn Crossing, Jefferson County, AL”
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Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER ALA,37-LICRO,1- · the record runs 289 words · one of 208 surveyed structures published for this county.
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Crosses Jefferson County 71, Linn Cross ing, Jefferson County, Alabama. Date of Construction: Description: Approximately 15 to 20 frame residences remain today, along with the wooden trestle bridge that still carries coal trains .from the nearby Jim Walter Nebo and Chetopa mines over the former Southern Railway tracks. Proj ect Information: This report is based upon written documentation donated by the Birmingham Historical Society, reformatted to HABS/HAER guidelines.
Historical Overview
In the only seven families lived between Linn Crossing and Adamsville. Settlement at the crossing dates to when the Linn family cemetery was established on a high knoll near the crossing. Adjacent to the cemetery the white frame Antioch Baptist Church, the religious and social hub of the community, now stands. By the Georgia Pacific (later Southern) Railroad extended through the Linn farmlands and people came from miles around to board trains bound for Birmingham and Atlanta. In the L. & N. extended the Cane Creek Branch of the Birmingham Mineral Railroad to Banner, further opening the area to mining. The two railroads crossed at this small community that had grown to 15 or 20 frame structures. SOURCE CONSULTED White, Marj orie, The Birmingham District, p. 276
| Linn Crossing, Alabama | The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town. |
| Jefferson County, Alabama | 218 topographic sheets across the county. |
| Library of Congress record | The original filed report as the survey filed it. |
The federal survey recorded these other structures elsewhere in Jefferson County. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.
| Sheet | Structure | Survey | Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham Industrial District | HAER ALA,37-BIRM.V,4- | 46,835 words | |
| Vulcan Statue & Park | HAER ALA,37-BIRM,48- | 32,533 words | |
| Birmingham District Railroads | HAER ALA,37-BIRM.V,3- | 24,749 words | |
| Sixteenth Street Baptist Church | HABS ALA,37-BIRM,33- | 20,031 words | |
| Southern Ductile Casting Company | HAER ALA,37-BES,5- | 17,970 words | |
| Rickwood Field | HABS ALA,37-BIRM,5- | 17,684 words | |
| United States Pipe & Foundry Company Plant | HAER ALA,37-BES,6- | 17,320 words | |
| Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company Furnaces | HAER ALA,37-BIRM,4- | 17,290 words | |
| Thomas By-Product Coke Works | HAER ALA,37-THOS,6- | 15,566 words | |
| Alabama Theatre | HABS ALA,37-BIRM,37- | 14,150 words | |
| Ross Creek Culvert | HAER AL-214 | 12,189 words | |
| Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company | HAER ALA,37-BIRM,45- | 12,013 words | |
| Hardie-Tynes Manufacturing Company | HAER ALA,37-BIRM,33- | 11,178 words | |
| Red Mountain Iron Ore Mining | HAER ALA,37-BIRM.V,14- | 10,099 words | |
| Arlington Place | HABS ALA,37-BIRM,1- | 9,757 words | |
| Thomas Worker Housing | HAER ALA,37-THOS,7- | 4,608 words | |
| Valley View Red Ore Mine | HAER ALA,37-BIRM,47- | 4,242 words | |
| Ruffner Red Ore Mine | HAER ALA,37-BIRM,43- | 2,937 words | |
| Lone Pine Mine 3 | HALS AL-8 | 2,589 words | |
| Brookside Coal Mine | HAER ALA,37-BROK,5- | 2,233 words | |
| Woodward Coal & Iron Company Furnace | HAER ALA,37-WOOD,1- | 1,907 words | |
| Red Mountain Cut National Natural Landmark | HAER ALA,37-BIRM,41- | 1,902 words | |
| City of Fairfield | HAER ALA,37-FAIRF,1- | 1,877 words | |
| Bethel Baptist Church | HABS ALA,37-BIRM,26- | 1,771 words |
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