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Grover Grammer bought the old Hagler's Mill on Binion Creek in north Tuscaloosa County in the 1940s before electricity was available. The mill had been built by Edward Hagler in 1866.

Grammar ran the mill by water power, grinding corn meal,…

Grover Grammer bought the old Hagler's Mill on Binion Creek in north Tuscaloosa County in the 1940s before electricity was available. The mill had been built by Edward Hagler in 1866.

Grammar ran the mill by water power, grinding corn meal, sawing…

1898 -The Mullenix Farmhouse, formerly the Brown House, at 15880 Boyd Road in the Echola community in Tuscaloosa County was built in 1896 by Isaiah Cap and Elizabeth Sissie Brown, pictured on the left. Their children Minnie Brown, Maggie Brown and…

John Frederick Mullenix is pictured in 1938 with his 5-year-old son, Searcy Mullenix, beside his 1927 Model T that he used to deliver Watkins products and other goods to rural families in northern Tuscaloosa County.

A longtime resident of Echola,…

The Tuscaloosa County Livestock Market held its first auction on August 9, 1939 in Northport with almost 600 heads of livestock to be auctioned.

The sycamore log felled in Tuscaloosa County measures 72 inches in diameter across the butt of the log and 58 inches on the other end. The tree was 65 feet tall, taking four hours and 20 minutes to fell. Then it took the whole day to skid the log 350…

Five of the men who helped bring this king-size sycamore log out of the woods of Tuscaloosa County are (left to right) J.D. King, logger and lumberman; John Smelley, sawmill operator; Trimm (W. T.) Hamner, veteran logger; John Stillwell, trucker; and…

Cotton farmers rally together to raise the price of cotton to 10 cents a pound.

Cotton Crisis of 1914: In 1914, Tuscaloosa and the rest of the south suffered severe economic shock. With the outbreak of World War I, the foreign market for cotton –…

A parade, an attempt to boost the price of cotton to 10 cents a pound, travels west on Broad Street (now University Boulevard), approaching Market Street (now Greensboro Avenue) in Tuscaloosa.

Cotton Crisis of 1914: In 1914, Tuscaloosa and the…

Floyd W. Mullenix of Echola with mules used for farming.