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Tombigbee (tŏmbĭg`bē), river, c.400 mi (640 km) long, rising in NE Miss. and flowing SE into W Alabama, then generally S to join the Alabama River and form the Mobile River before entering into Mobile Bay at Mobile. The Tombigbee is an important artery for manufactured goods. Dams and locks improve navigation on the river. In 1972 construction was begun on a canal between the Tombigbee and Tennessee rivers. The 253-mi (407-km) waterway, completed in 1984, is another modern link in a navigable system from the Tennessee Valley to the Gulf Coast. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Two years after a forgettable cruise down the Tombigbee Waterway, a boat owner from Mississippi received a summons naming him as the defendant in a lawsuit. unnamed mountain rivulets bounce together to form the small Conasauga River, a brook that gives itself over to the Oostanaula, then the Coosa, and finally the Alabama River, which, after a sidelong meander through downstate Alabama, couples tentatively with the Tombigbee (Choctaw: "coffin-makes"), lingers as the Mobile and Tensaw Rivers, and passes into the Gulf of Mexico. Millennium competitors will fish in three elimination rounds on the Tensaw Delta, a 100,000-acre fishery formed by the convergence of the Tombigbee, Alabama and Mobile Rivers at Mobile Bay. |
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