"The river of God, the water of life, the Holy Spirit, does not simply bring joy, refreshment, and power to worship. The river flows from the place of worship"  Mission in the Bible 5: The River from the Temple (Ezekiel 47:1-12) – Big Circumstance

The Tuskaloosa Independent Monitor

 The first important geographic feature at the mouth of the Warrior River northwest of Demopolis, Alabama, is Webb's Bend. I believe this riverbend takes its name from Demopolis businessman, John C. Webb 1842-1924. John Cox Webb (1842-1924) - Find a Grave Memorial

Captain Webb's house in Demopolis

The circle represents a point just northwest of Demopolis where the Black Warrior empties into the Tombigbee. The first upward loop of the sculpture that surrounds the "1819 note" is Webbs Bend of the Warrior River north of Demopolis. Webbs Bend - Google Maps

On the bank of the Warrior River within the eyesight of someone standing at the lock wall by the Minerva statue lies the hundred feet long wreck of what I believe to be the paddlewheel steamboat Cypress. 

Old Steamboat films Rare and Vintage Steamboat Film Footage (1929-35)

Spanish American War Edison Film, Tampa

The Great Steamboat Race narrated by Loretta Young

The Steamboat Years: St. Louis 1859-1875 (1962) - Vintage Documentary

ROBERTOREG CARDINAL FLOWERS BESIDE PADDLEWHEEL STEAMBOAT HULL - YouTube

The old wooden hull of the Cypress, like the Minerva statue, commemorates in its own special way the Warrior's role in the 1816 founding of a frontier town once called "the falls of the Tuskaloosa."

The Tuskaloosa Independent Monitor

And just as the first metallic curve on the sculpture of the Warrior River in the walkway of the Minerva statue represents Webb's Bend ,

The Tuskaloosa Independent Monitor

 the old wooden hull of the Cypress commemorates Tuscaloosa's commercial connection to Webb's Bend and the City of Demopolis because a Demopolis company, John C. Webb & Son brought the Cypress to the Warrior River in 1930.

According to Brina J. Agranat's MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE OLIVER POOL, in the early 1940s, Baker Towing of Tuscaloosa bought the Cypress from John C. Webb (Webb's home stands today as a Demopolis landmark.) A Preliminary Assessment of Submerged and Maritime-Related Cultural Resources in the Oliver Pool, Black Warrior River, Tuscaloosa, AL. Brina J. Agranat. 1990 ( tDAR id: 210782) A Preliminary Assessment of Submerged and Maritime-Related Cultural Resources in the Oliver Pool, Black Warrior River, Tuscaloosa, AL (Brina J. Agranat) | the Digital Archaeological Record

"The Cypress was built in St. Martinville, Louisiana in 1915 as the F. Hilda Burdin. 

J.J. Burdin house in LaFayette, Louisiana

She measured 105.3 feet in length, 24.3 feet in beam, and 3.5 feet in depth. She was rebuilt in 1925, renamed, and sold by her owners Weis Patterson  Lumber Company to Captain Owen F. Burke of Mobile, Alabama in 1930. After a single trip to Selma, Alabama on the Alabama River, Burke sold the Cypress to John C. Webb of Demopolis. The Cypress was a 'push or pull" boat, mounting towing knees forward and a towing rig up aft (Nevill 1964:84, 166; Hubbs 1987:91; Gene Findlay Interview, Apprendix C).

the wreck "consists of the lower hull of an iron-fastened wooden vessel 105.5 feet in length, with a surviving beam of 24 feet. Dimensions are consistent with the Baker towboat Cypress. Structure shows evidence of engine mount locations. Double floors are present at the 22nd through 26th, and 28th frames aft Frames are 4 inches sided and 5 and one half inches moulded. Room and space is 18 inches. Outer hull planking measures 11 and one half inches wide and 2 and three quarter inches thick. Outer hull is sheathed three quarter inch wood sheathing."

Cypress 1915-1947

 Owned by Baker Towboat of Tuscaloosa until 1947 

when Tom Findlay bought Baker out. He "acquired at least 5 of Baker's wooden towboats, and moved into headquarters at the municipal wharf at Riverview. Favoring modern screw-driven steel boats, Findlay dismantled the old Baker boats Baldwin and Cypress and sunk the hulls along the banks of the Black Warrior River."

The F. Hilda Burdin was built out of cypress at Burgin's St. Martinville lumber yard Bayou Teche. Here's a ROBERTOREG YouTube video of my visit to Bayou Teche. Wooden Boat Show On Bayou Teche In St. Martinville, La.