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A monument for Captain William Dollar, said to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary War (undocumented) stands in the cemetery of Fellowship Baptist Church on Gordo-Reform Road. It Is said that the monument stands on land where Dollar had his…

Aubrey Dominick was appointed Circuit Judge of Tuscaloosa County by Gov. Lurleen Wallace in 1967 after the resignation of veteran judge W.C. Warren. Dominick, a Greene County native, retired in 1976 after 47 years of work that included being a…

Fred Drake, a graduate of the University of Alabama and C.P.A., was vice-president for finance of the University of Alabama system from 1974-78. From 1964 to 1974 he was associated with the University of Alabama, rising from the position of chief…

Joe Brown Duckworth, was president of Duckworth-Morris Realty, developer of Essex Square Market Place at the corner of McFarland Boulevard and Watermelon Road.

Joe Duckworth served on the Druid City Hospital Board for over twenty five years. As a DCH developer, he was named one of the first two Fellows of the Druid City Hospital Foundation when the institute opened in 1923.

Duckworth was a notable…

A historical marker on the Black Warrior River near the Hugh Thomas Bridge reads:

Captain Benjamin F. Eddins

Born in South Carolina in 1813, Benjamin Farrar Eddins raised and led a company of volunteers that served in the 41st Alabama Infantry…

H. A. Edwards, a Tuscaloosa businessman, was on the Board of Trustees for Druid City Hospital for almost 20 years, serving as chairman for some years and guiding it through much of its growth.

Edwards was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church…

Camille Elebash was born in Tuscaloosa, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Maxwell. She attended Tuscaloosa schools including  the University of Alabama where she studied journalism. She worked at The Tuscaloosa News before going to New York to work…

Karl Elebash Jr. was a local journalist and Republican activist. A Tuscaloosa native, Elebash graduated from Tuscaloosa High School and began his career in the newspaper business in the mailroom of The Tuscaloosa News when he was 17. He continued to…

Dr. James Oliver Ellis (1951-2004) was a pastor and educator known for his love of his community and willingness to sacrifice his own resources for the betterment of others. As pastor of Tuscaloosa’s First African Baptist Church, he oversaw an…