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The stagecoach stop no longer exists, only the chimney remains, but was located on what was then the Cahaba-Tuscaloosa Road, now Dallas County Road 45, south of Marion.

A crowd gathers outside the Chevrolet dealership on 6th Street in Tuscaloosa. The building was used by The Tuscaloosa News when the dealership moved to a location on Greensboro Avenue near the Black Warrior River.

The man with his hand on the…

Tyler Hagenwald and Bill Hess share a bicycle.

A horse-drawn wagon passes the F. W. Monnish Building Materials Store. The location of the store is unknown. The sign on the wagon reads "Phil W. Blondheim." Blondheim owned a clothing store.

Blondheim came from Washington, D.C., to Tuscaloosa…

An ox-cart passes what may be the Hamner house on Main Avenue in Northport.

The Empire Coke Company was located along the Black Warrior River north of Tuscaloosa at Holt from 1903 to 2004. The company produced industrial coke for steel mills.

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…

An 'aeroplane' in front of Comer Hall on the University of Alabama campus. With no airport in Tuscaloosa, some planes landed on grassy fields on the Bryce Hospital campus or University of Alabama campus. Frederick Richard Maxwell Jr. is 4th from the…

This covered bridge was located about 5 miles south of Brookwood, Ala., on Covered Bridge Road. It was thought to built about 1850 and was destroyed by fire in 1962. It was the last covered bridge in Tuscaloosa County.

The bridge was constructed…

Electric streetcars like the ones pictured were first used in Tuscaloosa in February of 1915, and superseded the old steam locomotive known as the "dummy line."

Streetcar service began in 1883 with the arrival of the town’s first horsecar…