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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]
Tuscaloosa (Ala.): The University of Alabama Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8173-5680-4; Reed, Delbert. All of Us Fought the War: The University of Alabama and its Men and Women in World War II. Tuscaloosa (Ala.): Paul W. Bryant Museum, 2012. ISBN 0-615-69801-8; Sellers, James B. History of the University of Alabama. Volume 1: 1818–1902. Tuscaloosa ...
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
Suwannee River Junior College: Madison: Florida: 1959 1966 Public One of eleven black junior colleges founded in Florida after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, in an attempt to show that separate but equal higher education facilities existed in Florida. All were abruptly closed after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Turner College
Tuscaloosa was captured on that day, and all of its factories and the river bridge destroyed. On April 4, Croxton sent Colonel Thomas M. Johnston and two hundred men to burn the university. In the midst of carrying out his orders, university faculty pleaded with Johnston to spare the library rotunda .
From 1910 onward, all buildings facing the Quad would be built in the Classical Revival and Beaux-Arts styles. The first of this group was the Beaux-Arts-style Smith Hall, built in 1910 as the new home of the Alabama Museum of Natural History. Next was the Beaux-Arts-style Morgan Hall, built in 1911 as a complement to Smith Hall.
Built in 1884, the Gothic Revival-style Clark Hall was constructed on the site of the old Lyceum, destroyed during the Civil War. Named for Willis G. Clark, a university trustee, Clark Hall was originally designed as an all-purpose building with a library, reading rooms, chapel, and a large public meeting room, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] which served as "the ...
Tuscaloosa County was established on February 6, 1818. On December 13, 1819, the territorial legislature incorporated the town of Tuskaloosa- now Tuscaloosa - one day before Congress admitted Alabama the Union as a state. From 1826 to 1846, Tuskaloosa was the capital of Alabama. The State House was built at the corner of 6th Street and 28th ...