About Triana, Alabama

Triana is a city of 2,890 people in Madison County. It sits on a bluff above the north bank of the Tennessee River, 16 miles southwest of Huntsville. The Chickasaw who lived here called the land The Prairie, but in 1816 the Chickasaw Nation was forced to give up most of what is now Madison County. Two years later the federal government laid out town lots on the site.

Triana was incorporated on November 13, 1819, before Alabama had even become a state, and it was the second town in Madison County. A canal along Indian Creek linked the town to Hunt's Spring, the settlement that grew into Huntsville, and Triana became a busy port at the canal's southern end. The county's cotton and other crops left its landings for market in the years before railroads reached North Alabama.

  • Named for Columbus's lookoutThe town reportedly took its name from Rodrigo de Triana, the sailor on Columbus's first voyage to the Americas who is said to have been the first to spot land.
  • A voting place since 1819In 1819, the same year Triana was incorporated, Madison County made the town one of its first six voting precincts.
  • Chartered again in 1964Triana's incorporation lapsed after its river port days, and the town was chartered again on July 13, 1964. Clyde Foster helped bring the town back, and he went on to serve as its mayor. Until the 2020 census, Triana was the only incorporated community in Madison County where most residents were Black.
  • Fighting DDT in the riverIn 1977 the EPA warned of high DDT levels in the Huntsville Spring Branch's fish and waterfowl. Its investigation, begun two years later, traced the chemical to Olin Corporation's DDT production on Redstone Arsenal. Triana residents and the U.S. Department of Justice each sued Olin, and both cases were settled. From 1982 to 1995 the EPA monitored the water while DDT levels dropped 97%. It calls the physical cleanup complete, but the site remains on its Superfund list.
  • A church under a willowElder Eli Patton led the founding of Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church in 1878, and its first members gathered beneath a weeping willow tree in Triana. On June 20, 1905, the congregation bought land in the New Haven community and built a new sanctuary there.

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Names on the Triana map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks2

  • Triana Municipal Building
  • Sports Field

Streets and roads52

  • Murphy Circle
  • Carr Lane
  • Lakeside Drive
  • Wall Triana Highway
  • Landess Circle
  • Zierdt Road
  • Harold Murphy Drive
  • Sixth Street
  • Record Street
  • Fields Pond Drive
  • Jesse Bennett Drive
  • Caudle Drive
  • Tybee Drive
  • Stone Street Southwest
  • Foster Drive
  • Village Springs Drive
  • Fifth Street
  • Ervin Lane
  • Abercorn Drive
  • Advent Drive
  • Murphy Lane
  • Cable Circle
  • Eighth Street
  • Riverfront Drive
  • Ervin Circle
  • Cowan Road
  • Draper Drive
  • Princewater Drive
  • David Barnes Drive
  • Pitts Griffin Drive
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  • Daymark Drive
  • Joe Fletcher Drive
  • Ragland Circle
  • Barnard Street
  • River Rock Drive
  • Seventh Street
  • Mary Caudle Way
  • Copeland Drive
  • Fearn Drive
  • Bertha Drive
  • Swancott Road
  • Ninth Street
  • James Parcus Circle
  • Gwinett Drive
  • Benteen Avenue
  • Fourth Street
  • Monique Drive
  • Fairburn Avenue
  • Creek Gravel Drive
  • River Haven Drive
  • Oxfordwill Court
  • Kings Cove Circle

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  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

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Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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