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A postcard of the First Presbyterian Church, Tuscaloosa which appears to have been given (but not posted) as a New Year's greeting in 1919 by Mrs. Snow, The poem on the card reads: A bright New Year and a sunny track Along an upward way, And a song…

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church of Gordo was founded in 1843. The first church was a log building with a dirt floor and seats made of split logs and was heated by an eight-foot wide fireplace behind the pulpit and lit by oil lamps. The church had very…

The First Christian Church of Tuscaloosa was formed in 1907. In 1926, a church was under construction at University Boulevard and Queen City Avenue. In spite of the Depression of 1929, the church members sustained the church. The buildings were…

In 1913, several families in Bibb and Perry counties moved to Tuscaloosa to work at the Kaul Lumber Company, a new plant at the time, and Tuscaloosa Hosiery Mills. Mission work began in the homes of the people and a church was organized call Pierce…

The First Presbyterian Church of Carrollton, Alabama, was first organized in 1839. It then dissolved in 1844, was reorganized in 1853, and again in 1868. The one-room church building was erected in 1901, after the original church burned. The church…

  First African Baptist Church began in 1866 with the Black members of the First Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa deciding to form their own church.  At first worship was held in the member’s homes.   The first permanent church building was constructed…

Rev. Elisha Brown (1875 - 1943) baptizes converts from Corinth Baptist Church in west Tuscaloosa County at Elledge Lake near Coker, Alabama. Rev. Brown was a resident of Gordo who rode his mule to Corinth Church to preach.

Rev. Brown used a stick…

Hunter's Chapel AME Zion Church was organized in 1866, the first black Methodist Church in Tuscaloosa. Its first house of worship was a rented building that stood where Bryant-Denny Stadium now stands. The first structure built by the church was…

First Presbyterian Church was the Tuscaloosa News "Feature Church" on November 14, 1969.

"The First Presbyterian Church was formed May 6, 1820 by sixteen people originally from the same section of South Carolina. Rev. Andrew Brown was the first…

Saint Peter A.M.E. Zion Church was the Tuscaloosa News Feature Church on September 4, 1970.

"The Saint Peter A.M.E. Zion Church was organized July 2, 1952 at the C.S.& B. Hall on 32nd Avenue and 18th Street under the leadership of Reverend Pete S.…