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On June 30, 1995, Tricia Lowery and Amanda Coupland held a Holy Union at the Presidential Pavilion on the University of Alabama campus.The ceremony was held on their anniversary, four years after they began dating, and was the first event of its kind…

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The Lorrie Memorial Lending Library is located in the Holt community. The library is owned by God’s House, an independent church. The library occupies a former post office on the property of the church. The 4,000-volume library was named for the…

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God's House is an independent Christian congregation that believes that classism, racism, sexism, and other social discriminations do not belong in the church. God’s House was established in August, 2002, and is served by two pastors, Rev. Helene…

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The picture depicts a red phoenix logo of the Tuscaloosa Lesbian Coalition on a lavender shirt. The Tuscaloosa Lesbian Coalition was a community-based production group formed in 1986 by Rose Gladney and Marcia Winter to support lesbian concerns and…

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The photo depicts the ceremony of the Holy Union of Amanda and Tricia Coupland, after being together for four years. This holy union took place at the Presidential Pavilion at the University of Alabama on June 30, 1995, almost 20 years before gay…

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The Tuscaloosa Country Club, organized in 1921 and constructed in 1922, had a nine-hole golf course.

It was not the first golf course in Tuscaloosa. The first was the Riverside Golf Course, located on what was once Queen City Park and which had…

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A brochure issued in 1963 by the Tuscaloosa County Medical Society promoting mass immunization using the Sabin Vaccine. The Sabin Vaccine is taken orally on cube of sugar.

The brochure gives the dates and locations in Tuscaloosa County where the…

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Fellopwship Baptist Church is located on the Gordo-Reform Road. It was established in 1832 and was constituted an orthodox Baptist church by the then Cahaba Asssociation on August 3, 1833. Originally located in the  Hargrove Community, legendary…

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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…

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The Sand Mountain Meeting House Cemetery was created on land donated by Nimrod Hendrick (1778-1862). Hendrick was a soldier in the War of 1812 and was given land in Duncanville, south of Tuscaloosa, for his service. The cemetery was abandoned and…
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