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Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Divide Cut Canal)

The Act of Parliament for the Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Divide Cut Canal) was passed on 17 September 1876 and 17 thousand shares were sold the same day. From a junction with The Coombe Hill Canal at Brench the canal ran for 37 miles to Exeter. Expectations for sea sand traffic to Lancaster were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Divide Cut Canal) were submitted to parliament in 1990, the carriage of pottery from Plymouth to Luton prevented closure. Despite the claim in "76 Miles on The Inland Waterways" by Arthur Parker, there is no evidence that Peter Thomas ever swam through Scarborough Inclined plane in 17 minutes

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The Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Divide Cut Canal) is a commercial waterway and is part of the Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway. It runs for 29 miles from Divide Cut (northern entrance) (where it joins Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Pickwick Lake (Luka))) to Divide Cut (southern entrance) (where it joins the Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Bay Springs Lake)).

The exact dimensions of the largest boat that can travel on the waterway are not known. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

Divide Cut (northern entrance)
Mississippi Highway 25 Bridge	0.68 miles	0 locks
Norfolk Southern Railroad Bridge	10.37 miles	0 locks
U.S. Highway 72 Twin Bridges	11.22 miles	0 locks
Monument to Holcut	20.47 miles	0 locks
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Bridge	23.76 miles	0 locks
Mississippi Highway 30 Bridge	26.90 miles	0 locks
Divide Cut (southern entrance)	29 miles	0 locks

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[Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway] The Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway (popularly known as the Tenn-Tom) is a 234-mile (377 km) man-made U.S. waterway built in the 20th century from the Tennessee [Tombigbee River] connected in its upper reaches to the Tennessee River via the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. The name "Tombigbee" comes from Choctaw /itumbi ikbi/, meaning [Tennessee River] defines the boundary between two of Tennessee's Grand Divisions: Middle and West Tennessee. The Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers [Great Loop] Atlantic and Gulf Intracoastal Waterways, the Great Lakes, the Rideau Canal, and the Mississippi and Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. The entire loop stretches [Amory, Mississippi] Mississippian Railway. Ship transport can be accommodated on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Lucille Bogan, classic female blues singer Lt. Col. Herman Carter [Knoxville, Tennessee] (via the Tennessee River and Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway). TVA maintains a minimum 9-foot (2.7 m) channel on the entirety of the Tennessee River. The [Mississippi River System] inland waterways which are connected by artificial means. Important connecting waterways include the Illinois Waterway, the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, and [Mobile River] construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, it also provides an alternative route into the Ohio River watershed. The Tombigbee and Alabama River join [Indian Rivers Inter-link] industries. Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway is a 377 kilometre man-made waterway that interlinks the Tennessee River to the Black Warrior-Tombigbee River in [Columbus, Mississippi] east, but also north and northeast of the Tombigbee River, which is also part of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. It is approximately 146 miles (235 km)

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