River Falls, AL news and local guide

In 1897 E. L. More, president of the Alabama and Florida division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, came from Nashville to build a branch line. Seeing the vast stands of virgin longleaf pine, he bought a half-interest in a small mill on Buck Creek, which grew into the Horse Shoe Lumber Company, one of the largest and most modern sawmills of its time, with a logging railroad that used as many as eight locomotives. In 1920 More organized the River Falls Power Company to supply electricity to nine counties along the Alabama–Florida line, and his own mill was one of its first customers. The Horse Shoe Lumber Company closed after the disastrous flood of 1929. In the 1940s Hank Williams's band played at the Riverside Inn on the east bank of the Conecuh at River Falls. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Montezuma (Alabama Historical Association) The Historical Marker Database: The Horse Shoe Lumber Company / River Falls Power Company (Covington Historical Society) The Historical Marker Database: Three Notch Road / Hank and Audrey Williams Wikipedia: River Falls, Alabama