John Coley's (lakemartinvoice) Blog

The "4th Annual State of Our Watershed Conference - The Tallapoosa River Basin", coordinated from the Alabama Water Watch office in the AU Department of Fisheries, is for all who are interested in learning more about the health of streams, lakes and rivers of the Tallapoosa River Basin, the devel...

If you have a Lake Martin house in the Little Kowaliga area, you are well aware that Little Steel Bridge Road aka Elmore County Road 55 is closed.  If you are heading to the Real Island or Parker Creek areas of Lake Martin, and are coming from the south, be aware that you must detour.  Keep going...

For anyone that likes old maps of Alabama - or if you would like to see what your Lake Martin property looked like before the lake was built - I have a great site for you.  The University of Alabama is a great site resource for these old maps.  Some of them date back to the early 1800s.   Here ar...