Byler Road

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Byler road is the oldest public road in Alabama that is still in use today. The road was completed in the mid 1820's and connected the Tennessee River near Courtland with the Warrior River near Tuscaloosa. Many towns in Tuscaloosa, Lawrence, Winston, Walker, and Fayette Counties of Alabama grew up along the turnpike. During the Civil War, both confederate and Union armies traveled the road. Haleyville was built around Byler Road, and that accounts for the narrow Main Street – stores built on either side of the existing Byler Road. This short account of the Byler Road shows the importance of this road in the early settling of Walker and surrounding counties. At the end of the road, just beside the lake, lies the old Prewitt slave cemetary.

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