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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] 1837 - Independent Monitor newspaper begins publication. [4] 1840 - Population: 1,949. 1847 - State capital ...
Stillman College was founded as Tuscaloosa Institute, when it was authorized by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States in 1875, [8] and held its first classes in 1876. It was chartered as a legal corporation by the State of Alabama in 1895. At that time, the name was changed from Tuscaloosa Institute to Stillman ...
Ellis was Valedictorian of West Blocton High School, Class of 1936. Sammie Lee Hill, who was drafted in the fourth round of the 2009 NFL draft by the Detroit Lions, was born in West Blocton in 1986. He is a graduate of West Blocton High School and Stillman College. Debra Marshall, known from her days with the WCW and WWE, was raised in West ...
An emergency contingency plan is in place at the Omnia Classical School in Tuscaloosa County to help keep it financially afloat until the CHOOSE Act takes effect.
The school opened with grades one through seven in September 1967, the year Alabama public schools were forced to desegregate. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 1973, the first graduation exercises were held. In a 1979 interview, headmaster William Garrison denied that it was founded as a segregation academy, as did all other private schools in Tuscaloosa, and ...
The county is the home to Tier-1 research university The University of Alabama, Shelton State Community College, and private liberal arts school Stillman College, a historically black college founded in 1876. Together, the three schools enroll 43,681 students as of spring 2021.
The system consists of 24 schools: 13 elementary schools (12 zoned and 1 magnet), 6 middle schools (5 zoned and 1 magnet), 3 high schools (Paul W. Bryant High School, Central High School and Northridge High School), and 2 specialty schools (the Tuscaloosa Center for Technology, a vocational school, and Oak Hill School for special needs students ...
After the Stafford's purchased the property, they converted it into the Stafford School (1876-85), a boys' school. Alabama Female Institute (Sims' Female Academy; Tuscaloosa Female Academy; 1829-1873) was one of the earliest educational institutions for women organized in Alabama.