Buzzard Roost, Alabama

Buzzard Roost, Alabama
Unincorporated community
Buzzard Roost Spring
Buzzard Roost Spring
Buzzard Roost, Alabama is located in Alabama
Buzzard Roost, Alabama
Buzzard Roost, Alabama
Location in Alabama.
Coordinates: 34°45′40″N 88°01′26″W / 34.76111°N 88.02389°W / 34.76111; -88.02389
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyColbert
Elevation
466 ft (142 m)
Population
 • Total
12
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code256

Buzzard Roost is an unincorporated community in Colbert County, Alabama, United States.[1] Buzzard Roost had a post office in the 1850s, but it no longer exists.[2]

Geography

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Buzzard Roost is located three miles west of Cherokee on U.S. Route 72.

History

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Bernard Romans' Map of 1772 indicated a place called "Chickianooe", which appears to be a misprint of the Choctaw word Chickianoce, Skeki anusi or anosi, meaning 'buzzards there sleep'.[3]

Levi Colbert, Chickasaw Bench Chief, built his stand in Buzzard Roost in 1801. He ran an inn there with his family. An exhibit telling his story is part of the Natchez Trace Parkway.[4][5][6][7] He is credited with changing the name from Buzzard Sleep to Buzzard Roost.[8]

In the 1840s, Armstead Barton built Barton Hall, also known as the Cunningham Plantation, an antebellum plantation house.[9]

Buzzard Roost was a stop on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, between Iuka, Mississippi, and Cherokee Station, Alabama.[10]

Buzzard Roost Covered Bridge, built over Buzzard Roost Creek in 1860, was 94 ft (29 m) long, and located on "Allsboro Rd., which is part of the Natchez Trace Parkway System". It was destroyed by fire on July 15, 1972.[11][12][13]

In 1958, a type of spear point dating from the Early to an early Middle Archaic period, the Buzzard Roost Creek Point, was named after a site on Buzzard Roost Creek, by James W. Cambron.[14][15]

Buzzard Roost was added to the National Register of Historic Places November 7, 1976.[16]

As of 2011, a Pratt pony truss bridge built over Buzzard Roost Creek in 1940 remains, although it is rated "structurally deficient."[17]

References

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  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Buzzard Roost, Alabama
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Buzzard Roost Post Office (historical)
  3. ^ "Roman 1772 Map". Mississippi Genealogical and Historical Research. 2001. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
  4. ^ Natchez Trace Parkway - Buzzard Roost Spring, near Cherokee, AL
  5. ^ Photographs of Buzzard Roost Spring Archived April 13, 2013, at archive.today
  6. ^ "Levi Colbert b. 1759 Muscle Shoals, Colbert County. Alabama d. 2 JUN 1834 Buzzard Roost Spring, Colbert County. Alabama: Lest Our Past Be Forgotten". Lawrence Stanley Family Genealogy. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  7. ^ "Levi Colbert". Viki's Little Corner of the Web : A Resource for Chickasaw Native American History and Genealogy. Archived from the original on May 9, 2008. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  8. ^ "Buzzard Roost Spring - Natchez Trace". NatchezTraceTravel.com. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  9. ^ Fred Smoot. "Colbert County History / Barton Hall". Retrieved June 19, 2007.
  10. ^ "Colton's map of the State of Tennessee (1871)". teva.contentdm.oclc.org. Retrieved June 28, 2024.
  11. ^ Dale Travis (January 13, 2012). "Alabama Covered Bridges List". Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  12. ^ Interior of Buzzard Roost Covered Bridge, three miles west of Cherokee, Colbert County
  13. ^ Buzzard Roost Covered Bridge
  14. ^ Lloyd Schroder (July 3, 2012). "Buzzard Roost Creek". Peach State Archaeological Society. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  15. ^ "Point type: Buzzard Roost Creek". LITHICS-Net. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  16. ^ "Buzzard Roost". LandmarkHunter.com. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  17. ^ Ben Tate (April 2011). "Buzzard Roost Creek Bridge, Colbert County, Alabama". Bridgehunter.com. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
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