Author: Mary A. Sinclair
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Category : Tuscaloosa County (Ala.)
Languages : en
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Author: Billie Thomson Lockard
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Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Billie Thomson Lockard
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Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Maggie Hubbard Sudduth
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Category : Moores Bridge (Ala.)
Languages : en
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Author: Alton Lambert
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Category : Tuscaloosa County (Ala.)
Languages : en
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Author: Tuscaloosa County Heritage Book Committee
Publisher: Heritage Publishing Consultants
ISBN: 9781891647314
Category : Tuscaloosa County (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Author: Serena Blount
Publisher: America Through Time
ISBN: 9781635000696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Over its two hundred years of history, the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has held a prominent position within the state, not only as home to the state's flagship university, but also taking turns as the State Capitol, as the location for the state mental health hospital, as the site of Civil War conflict, and as a Civil Rights landmark. A locale marked by rapid growth at the time of its formal incorporation, today's Tuscaloosa replicates that rapid development--witnessing industrial and commercial growth, a rising population, and an expanding University. Yet residents of contemporary Tuscaloosa are never far from their history and forebears, for beautiful reminders of its past dot the city and lend to its grace and charms, while uglier aspects of that past lend to its self-awareness and point the way toward more enlightened and just self-governance. Indeed, this rich and varied history claims for Tuscaloosa a compelling position in American memory.

Author: Archibald Bruce McEachin
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Category : Tuscaloosa (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: John S. Lupold
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820355380
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Horace King (1807-1885) built covered bridges over every large river in Georgia, Alabama, and eastern Mississippi. That King, who began life as a slave in Cheraw, South Carolina, received no formal training makes his story all the more remarkable. This is the first major biography of the gifted architect and engineer who used his skills to transcend the limits of slavery and segregation and become a successful entrepreneur and builder. John S. Lupold and Thomas L. French Jr. add considerably to our knowledge of a man whose accomplishments demand wider recognition. As a slave and then as a freedman, King built bridges, courthouses, warehouses, factories, and houses in the three-state area. The authors separate legend from facts as they carefully document King’s life in the Chattahoochee Valley on the Georgia-Alabama border. We learn about King’s freedom from slavery in 1846, his reluctant support of the Confederacy, and his two terms in Alabama’s Reconstruction legislature. In addition, the biography reveals King’s relationship with his fellow (white) contractors and investors, especially John Godwin, his master and business partner, and Robert Jemison Jr., the Alabama entrepreneur and legislator who helped secure King’s freedom. The story does not end with Horace, however, because he passed his skills on to his three sons, who also became prominent builders and businessmen. In King’s world few other blacks had his opportunities to excel. King seized on his chances and became the most celebrated bridge builder in the Deep South. The reader comes away from King’s story with respect for the man; insight into the problems of financing, building, and maintaining covered bridges; and a new sense of how essential bridges were to the southern market economy.