White Bluff (Demopolis, Alabama)

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name = White Bluff
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caption = White Bluff, below the Demopolis Civic Center.
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lat_degrees = 32
lat_minutes = 31
lat_seconds = 10.38
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 87
long_minutes = 50
long_seconds = 30.43
long_direction = W
location = Arch Street, Demopolis, Alabama
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added = 25 September 1970cite web | url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/ | title=National Register Information System | accessdate=2008-01-26 | work=National Register of Historic Places | publisher=National Park Service]
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White Bluff, also known as Ecor Blanc, is a historic site located along the Tombigbee River in Demopolis, Alabama, United States.cite web|title="Marengo County"|work="Alabama's Front Porches"|url=http://www.alabamasfrontporches.com/counties/marengo.htm|accessdate=2008-01-26] It is a cliff, roughly one mile long, that is composed of a geological rock layer known as the Selma chalk formation. The cliff stood almost convert|80|ft|m above the river before the construction of the Demopolis Lock and Dam downriver. It now averages about convert|30|ft|m above the river.

It was first named Ecor Blanc by 18th century French explorers and map makers. It also became known as the Chickasaw Gallery because early Native American inhabitants harnessed their boats at the foot of the cliff. It was the site where French Bonapartist refugees landed in 1817 and established their Vine and Olive Colony.cite web|title="ADAH: Marengo Historical Markers"|work="Alabama Department of Archives and History"|url=http://www.archives.state.al.us/markers/imarengo.html|accessdate=2008-01-26]

ee also

*National Register of Historic Places listings in Marengo County, Alabama

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