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The Willams Hotel was located on Main Street in Gordo, Alabama. The date of its construction is unknown, but is after 1900. The building was demolished in the 1960s.

Settlement of the town of Gordo, located on U.S. Hwy 82, 23 miles west of…

The Busy Bee Restaurant in Gordo, AL, is shown in this photo from 1915. The restaurant was located on Main Street in Gordo.

Men shown from the left are Lovie Zeanah, David A. Cummins and Julius Geer. The child is unknown.

Dr. Patton had an…

Main Street in Gordo before 1898.

Settlement of the town of Gordo, located on U.S. Hwy 82, 23 miles west of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in east-central Pickens County, began before 1847. A web site, www.postalhistory.com, reports a post office in Gordo…

Photograph Construction of the Oliver Lock and Dam on the Black Warrior River.

The William Bacon Oliver Lock and Dam is located in Tuscaloosa on the Black Warrior River. Completed in 1940, it was named after U. S. Representative William Oliver.…

The original Druid City Hospital opened Mar. 28, 1923, on the University of Alabama campus. Prior to that time, Tuscaloosa had had a number of privately owned and managed hospitals. The movement for this new hospital began in 1919 when a group of…

A photograph of Greensboro Avenue looking south from 7th Street. The First Baptist Church can be seen on the left and the First Methodist Church on the right.

Woods Hall, built between 1867 and 1868, was named Alva Woods Hall in 1884 in honor of UA's first president and was the first building constructed after the Civil War. Prior to 1884 it was just called the "barracks". It was first used as dorm for…

A photograph of the Kappa Sigma fraternity house in 1928. The Beta Chapter of Kappa Sigma was organized at the University of Alabama in 1867.

This photograph was in an album lacking identification. The identity of Edward is unknown.

A photograph of the Prince-Thomas house built in 1855 that was the meeting place for the University Masonic Club during the early 20th century.

Information from the book Tuscaloosa by Amalia K. Amaki and Katherine R. Mauter published as part of…

The First Presbyterian Church of Eutaw, Ala., was founded in 1824 as the Mesopotamia Presbyterian Church, in the small village of Mesopotamia, a mile west of what is now Eutaw. In the 1840s, the congregation decided to move to the bustling hub of…