Lock at Mayo’s Bar

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Construction of the river lock at Mayo's Bar was completed in 1913. By this time trains had replaced steamboats as the primary shipping and transportation method in Rome, and most boats on the river were used for recreation.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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