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…
A marker, called a unity marker by Ben Windham in his Jan. 8, 2006, column in the Tuscaloosa News, can be seen from the walking trail along the Northport, Alabama, levee near the old 1898 M&O Railroad Trestle. Often mistaken for a grave stone, the…
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…
After he was quite elderly, William Rufus Dodson, a decendant of the surveyor Dodson who first surveyed Northport in the 1820s, built this home about 1890. The property was deeded to Lewis Williamson upon Mr. Dodson's death. Robert G. Mitchell was…
James Shirley (1809-1866), an early Northport pioneer settler from South Carolina, built the house of brick about 1840. Shirley also built the first brick commercial buildings in Northport in 1850, after a fire burned the entire district. One of the…