Tannehill

We’re planning on revisiting places (like Tannehill State Park in Alabama) along with new places (like Conecuh Forest).  Tannehill was my favorite state park in our first trip. This time I realized it’s my favorite for the things to see here, but camping is a real pain. It’s popular and the sites are right on top of each other. This shows the RV barely clearing a tree on one side and just enough room for the awning on the other side.

On the good side, the park is the site of the Tannehill Ironworks.  It provided iron to Selma for the Civil War.  Just before the end of war, the North destroyed the furnaces and equipment in a raid. The current furnaces are a combination of the original furnaces and reconstruction.

There is a pioneer village in the park.

There is a great Iron and Steel Museum at the park. One of the displays showed early wood pipe that was used for water. The story is “During a fire, a hole was drilled in the wood pipe, water would spurt out and firemen would fill up their buckets. Afterward, they would put a wood plug in the hole…hence comes the name FIREPLUG.” Interesting! This is an early steam engine.

This Confederate saltpeter pot would make a wonderful hot tub if it wasn’t for the fact that there are remnants of bat dung still in it!

And deer wandering through the park.