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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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The Tuscaloosa Fire Department 1923 LaFrance pumper in a fire prevention parade on University Boulevard in 1939. Waddell Bailey was a firefighter who had died earlier that year.

In 1939, the Tuscaloosa Fire Department had 18 firefighters and 423…

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Horse-drawn fire equipment was on the ground floor with Tuscaloosa Town Hall on the second floor. The building stood facing Greensboro Avenue at the site of the Bama Theatre.

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