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This historic house was built in 1837 by Dr. John R. Drish, a prominent early settler, as the focal point for a plantation that bordered the city limits of Tuscaloosa. It once stood in the center of a 350 acre plantation. William Nichols, the…

E. N. C. Snow was a prominent Tuscaloosa businessman and civic leader. The house was also the residence of Prof. Michael Toumey, Alabama's first state geologist. The Snow House was razed in 1964 to make way for the new Tuscaloosa County Courthouse. …

The home of Eugene Allen Smith was on the campus of the University of Alabama. After Smith died, the house was used as a fraternity house and was razed in 1949 for the construction of Gallalee Hall, the physic building.

Smith was professor of…

The Fitch House, also known as the Holman House, was built circa 1835 by the Fitch family. There are no records of ownership of the house until 1910 when Mrs. J.A. Townsend purchased the house. Later owners were the I.A. Robertsons, who sold the…

Sale of the Foster House, now known as the Foster-Cummings House, 1899.

This advertisement for the sale of what was then known as the Foster House was published in the Tuscaloosa Times - Trade Edition on Friday, May 12, 1899. The house is…

The Foster-Cummings House was built around 1827. The home was originally three-story and faced west, with high, straight steps leading to the second floor. In the 1930's, the two top stories were moved south to the present location, making it a…

Located at 815 17th Ave., in the heart of Tuscaloosa’s Druid City Historic District, the house was built by Marmaduke Williams, a representative in the Alabama State of House of Representatives from 1821 to 1839. The house was a wedding gift from…

Located at 815 17th Ave., in the heart of Tuscaloosa’s Druid City Historic District, the house was built by Marmaduke Williams, a representative in the Alabama State of House of Representatives from 1821 to 1839. The house was a wedding gift from…

Originally the home of Frederick Richard Maxwell Sr. and his wife Lucy Cochrane Maxwell, constructed in 1887 on the corner of then-unpaved 7th Street and 21st Avenue. The house had entrances on both streets.

In 1906, it was moved to the lot next…

This postcard was sent from Gaius Whitfield of Demopolis to Edwina Dakin of Columbus, Miss., on August 7, 1905, during their courtship. Dakin and Whitfield never married. Instead, Dakin married Cornelius Williams and the two became parents of two…