The Tom Bevill Lock and Dam, formerly named Aliceville Lock and Dam and "Memphis Lock and Dam", is one of four lock and dam structures on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway that generally lie along the original course of the

Tombigbee River The Tombigbee River is a tributary of the Mobile River, approximately 200 mi (325 km) long, in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Alabama. Together with the Alabama, it merges to form the short Mobile River before the latter empties int ...

. It is located near

Aliceville, Alabama Aliceville is a city in Pickens County, Alabama, United States, located thirty-six miles west of Tuscaloosa. At the 2010 census its population was 2,486, down from 2,567 in 2000. Founded in the first decade of the 20th century and incorporated ...

and impounds

Aliceville Lake Aliceville Lake is a reservoir in western Alabama and eastern Mississippi, on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Close to Aliceville, Alabama, Aliceville, it is impounded by the Tom Bevill Lock and Dam. See also *List of Alabama dams and reservoirs ...

. It is named for

Tom Bevill Tom Donald Fike Bevill (March 27, 1921 – March 28, 2005) was an American attorney, politician, and Democratic fifteen-term U.S. congressman who represented Alabama's 4th Congressional District and Alabama's 7th congressional district from 1967 ...

, a proponent of the Tenn-Tom.

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Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
(U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) Dams in Alabama Locks of Alabama United States Army Corps of Engineers dams Dams completed in 1978 Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway Transportation buildings and structures in Pickens County, Alabama Crossings of the Tombigbee River {{US-dam-stub