Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2013 22:59:50 GMT
The year was 1919 and the Demopolis City Park was the place designated for the sale of roosters to help finance the construction of a bridge across the Tombigbee River into Sumter County. Frank Derby, of York, thought up the idea of selling roosters to help the State Department in building a bridge across the Tombigbee River. In 1919 Alabama Governor Thomas Kilby appointed a delegation to go to Washington to receive from President Wilson four roosters shown in the photo. Derby is the man holding the platter with the rooster on it. Some of the delegates locally were from York, Frank Derby, Thomas Cobb and H. J. Wallace. From Demopolis - James C. Webb and L. K. Simmons
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Rooster Bridge
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Rooster Bridge