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Firemen show an antiquated piece of fire fighting equipment on parade traveling west on University Boulevard past Walker Motor Company. The event may have been a fire prevention parade.

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…

This photo shows the Searcy House as it is being prepared for demolition in 2014.

The two-story Searcy House was built in 1904 by George Searcy, a Tuscaloosa banker and businessman. It was sold to Tuscaloosa County in 1925 for $35,000. The…

Built in 1844 for John Glascock from Virginia, the home is of French Gothic design with distinctive Gothic windows. Glascock was a leading merchant and citizen of Tuscaloosa prior to the Civil War. Six bracketed posts of wood support the roof of the…

Built about 1822 by Dr. James Guild, the house was the first brick residence in the city. Guild was a trustee of the University of Alabama and the Alabama Insane (now Bryce) Hospital, a member of the state legislature, and a practicing…

Hunter's Chapel AME Zion Church was organized in 1866, the first black Methodist Church in Tuscaloosa. Its first house of worship was a rented building that stood where Bryant-Denny Stadium now stands. The first structure built by the church was…

In this photo taken in 1954, "Big Jim" poses in front of Hutchins Quick Lunch, located on Greensboro Ave. Several people in the photo were BFGoodrich workers. Identified in the photo are: Hoyt Hamner, Cliff Mock, Ace Trammel, Billy Thomson, Fuller…

The Jones Home, originally a two-story structure with no porch, was built by Dr. John Owen, a Methodist minister and former mayor of Tuscaloosa (early 1830's), for his daughter Sarah Frances Owen. Miss Owen married Thomas Jefferson Burke, an early…

The Leach-Redel House was built in 1904 by Dr. Sydney Leach and his wife Naneita McEachin Leach, possibly to plans by architect J. Straiton of Greensboro, Ala., who had designed a house for Mrs. Leach's sister, Eudora Otts, several years…

This lovely restoration is an excellent example of turn-of-the-century architecture. The wood frame structure was converted into the law office for former State Representative Jimmy Lee. The high ceilings and original wainscoting around the bottom…