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Faunsdale, AL | Some of it was covered in a bamboo type of vegetation we call switch cane. There’s still remnants of it along creeks but it was apparently once so predominant this area was called the canebrake.
Not a lot of tile in the black belt but it helps a lot. The light areas visible in that satelite image are the white chalk hilltops that have been exposed from farming and resulting erosion since this land was cleared and farmed beginning in the 1830’s. Not a lot of topsoil there to start with, none now, and as a result a lot of this “farming” area is best left in pasture.
The eastern end of the black belt runs farther to the east than your line encompasses. I think roughly to Union Springs area if you want to look that up. Cleve Preach has described the northwestern extent of it in Mississippi. I’m sort of in the middle of the arc near Demopolis, AL.
Edited by ccjersey 3/5/2024 11:45
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Geography question
