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1818 - Settlement designated seat of newly formed Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Territory. [1] [2] 1819 City of Tuscaloosa incorporated. Tuscaloosa becomes part of the new U.S. state of Alabama. 1826 - Alabama state capital relocated to Tuscaloosa from Cahaba. [1] 1831 - University of Alabama opens. 1835 - Battle–Friedman House built. [3]
The oldest house in Alabama owned and occupied by the family that built it. It is also documented in the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), 1934. Sadler House: McCalla: 1819 House This home may have originally consisted of an circa 1819 log pen that was later expanded upon. [20] Weeden House: Huntsville: 1819 House Early Huntsville home ...
Cahaba, also spelled Cahawba, was the first permanent state capital of Alabama, United States, from 1820 to 1825. [2] It was the county seat of Dallas County, Alabama until 1866.
Built in 1853. [5] First Baptist Church of Greenville: NRHP-listed Greenville: Butler: Built in 1908. [5] First Baptist Church of Huntsville Huntsville: Madison: Established in 1809, the oldest Southern Baptist church in Alabama. Current building completed in 1960. [22] First Baptist Church of Montgomery: ARLH-listed Montgomery: Montgomery
The CSS Huntsville and CSS Tuscaloosa Historic and Archaeological District is a shipwreck site in the Mobile River near Mobile, Alabama, United States. The Huntsville and the Tuscaloosa were ironclad warships built in 1863 at the Confederate Naval Works in Selma, Alabama . [ 2 ]
1844 - Huntsville was chartered as a city. [6] 1855 - Memphis and Charleston Railroad begins operating. 1860 - Huntsville Depot built. 1862 - Huntsville occupied by Union forces during the American Civil War. [7] [6] 1870 - Population: 4,907. 1888 Old Federal Square U.S. Post Office and Courts built on corner of Randolph St and Green St
Huntsville has grown through recent annexations west into Limestone County by 21.5 square miles (56 km 2) (13,885 acres, 5,619 ha) in the early 2000s, [65] and south into Morgan County with 1.03 square miles (2.67 km2) (659.1 acres, 266.73 ha) in 2018. [15] Huntsville borders Marshall County across the Tennessee River near Hobbs Island.
Tuscaloosa and Huntsville were unable to steam against the current in the Spanish River, [30] and Tuscaloosa was scuttled at the confluence of the Spanish River and the Mobile River on that same day. [23] Huntsville was sunk as well, and the wrecks served as blockships. [10] Tuscaloosa ' s crew and supplies were transferred to Nashville. [20]