Warrior: Coal Town on the Black Warrior River

Warrior sat as quiet farmland until eighteen seventy-two, when mining operations opened in the Warrior Coal Field and a post office opened to serve the workers. Both the town and the coal field take their name from the Black Warrior River, which drains this corner of Alabama. A railroad soon laid a line through to haul coal to market. The coal beneath these hills helped fuel Birmingham's iron and steel industry a short distance south, making Warrior one of the quiet feeders of the industrial giant rising on the plateau below.