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Northport's first group of career firefighters, circa 1965.

From left to right: Assistant Chief Woolsey Morris, Joe Christian, Jimmie Little, Kelly, M.L. Lynn, Ray Hamner, Bigham, Flower, Chief H. C. "Happy" Hulgan.

A photo of the library in the enlarged recreation center in Northport. The 15-by-34 foot addition has more than doubled space to be used by the library. Mrs. Caroline Dickson, librarian, reported an increase in circulation. The number of adult…

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…

This photo shows the old Northport Train Depot. It burned on Christmas Eve in 1923. Ninnie Cummins stands on the left with Richard Pearson on the right.

Main Avenue in Northport is shown after a snowstorm on January 24, 1948. The eight-inch snowfall was said to the the heaviest since 1936. While there were three snow storms in 1940, they did not produce as much snow. After one, however, a reading of…

Adam's Drug Store was located on the west side of Main Avenue in Northport in what is, in 2014, the left side of Billy's Sports Bar. The store was owned by Carl Adams who hired a pharmacist. In the photo from left to right are Inez C. Shirley, Carl…

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…

Rusty, the Big Red Dog is lifted into place on top of Stephens Studio and Gallery on Main Avenue in Northport, Alabama.

The sculpture was created in 1983 by Larry Godwin, who worked with his brothers in his father's feed store in Dothan, Alabama.…

Sam Palmer Faucett Sr. was a businessman in Northport, Alabama. He was a partner with George Christian in a general store named Christian and Faucett, located in a two-story building on the northwest corner of 5th Street and Main Avenue in…

Carrol's Creek Baptist Church was the Tuscaloosa News Feature Church on July 31, 1970.

"Carroll's Creek Baptist Church was organized in 1842 near where Carroll's Creek crosses Highway 69 North. Their building was destroyed by fire on March 29,…