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State Senate of Alabama Resolution renaming State Highway 69 from Coffeeville to Guntersville, Alabama, "The Folsom-McFarland Highway."

Governor James E. Folsom, known as "Big Jim," was governor of Alabama from 1947 to 1951 and again from 1955 to…

IIn 1886, the U. S. Congress authorized constructing three locks overcoming the Tuscaloosa Falls, a series of rock rapids falling 25 feet in about two miles. Locks 1, 2, and 3 opened on January 12, 1896.

To facilitate coal shipment, the River and…

Frank Chandler Sr. sits in the passenger seat of this roadster which he constructed with his friends who are in the photo, but unidentified. The paper mill at Holt is in the background.

The Hugh R. Thomas Bridge is a six-lane girder bridge that spans the Black Warrior River between Tuscaloosa and Northport. The bridge is part of both U.S. Route 43 and Alabama State Route 69. By the mid-1960s the old drawbridge that was built in 1922…

The invitation to the Open Warrior ceremony is dated Oct. 28, 1913, but delays getting the barge from New Orleans to Tuscaloosa caused the ceremony to be postponed until Oct. 31, 1913.

President Woodrow Wilson was scheduled to attend, but did not,…

The Mobile & Ohio (M&O) railroad trestle over the Black Warrior River between Tuscaloosa and Northport is shown in the background with the Josie W. leaving for Mobile.

The M&O Railroad trestle is a wooden and steel truss bridge that was…

One year before this photo of Kate Jemison was published in a 1899 Tuscaloosa Times there was a day of gaiety and celebration because of the completion of the Montgomery division of the Mobile and Ohio railroad. Jemison was the sponsor who was to…

The Kellerman bus carried passengers from Kellerman to Tuscaloosa over unpaved roads. Kellerman, located north of Brookwood, AL, in Tuscaloosa County, was once a thriving mining town with about 40,000 residents and even a hotel. When the mine closed,…

The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Station was built in Tuscaloosa in 1912. The depot still stands and has been used over the years as a restaurant and event facility.

It is constructed of yellow pressed bricks, marble and steel. The recessed…

This photo shows the train side of the L & N (Louisville and Nashville) railroad station in Tuscaloosa. Built in 1912, the depot still stands and has been used over the years as a restaurant and event facility.

It is constructed of yellow pressed…