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J. D. Quarles served as mayor of Northport 1964-1968 and 1974-1976. He also served on the Northport City Council 1956-1964.

Quarles is the son of John A. Quarles and Theo Snyder Quarles.

James Shirley built this building on the south west corner of Main Avenue and 5th Street in Northport.

James W. Anders stands by a pot-bellied stove in Anders Hardware in Northport. Anders was mayor of Northport from 1938 to 1956. He was born on October 21, 1887 and died at age 74 on February 10, 1962, after a long illness.

James W. Anders served as mayor of Northport from 1938 to 1956. He was serving as a councilman when Mayor Shepherd passed away and Anders was elected as his replacement. Anders was the owner of Anders Hardware Co. in Northport.

Anders was born at…

Jennings Chapel Methodist Church was the Tuscaloosa News Feature Church on October 2, 1970.

"Jennings Chapel United Methodist Church is located on The Cloverdale Road in the Chapelwood area of Northport. It is one of the historical places of…

Jesse J. Lewis Sr. created and published the Birmingham Times, a black newspaper.

Lewis was born in Northport in 1925 and was raised by his grandmother in a house at the bottom of Greensboro Avenue, on what was then called River Hill, near the…

John A. Quarles was in his fourth term as alderman in the Northport City Council when he became ill two years before he died in 1955.

Quarles was born in Vance, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Quarles. He lived in Northport for 45 years.

His wife…

This single-story frame house was built by John B. Maxwell, circa 1900.

Past Horizons, p. 58.

Northport lost one of its most influential citizens when John Paul Faucett died in 2009 at 68 years of age after a three-year battle with cancer.

Faucett was the son of Sam Palmer Faucett Jr. and Gwendolyn Dyer Faucett. Sam Faucett Jr. worked in…

John Quarles Jr. spent a career in banking, working first as vice president and treasurer of First Federal Savings and Loan and later serving as vice president and trust officer for Regions Bank in Tuscaloosa.

Quarles served on the Northport City…