Tuscaloosa City, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama (AL)

Tuscaloosa City

Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

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Tuscaloosa City Hall is located at 2201 University Boulevard, Tuscaloosa, AL 35402.
Phone: 205‑258‑5311.


Murphy-Collins House, National Register

Tuscaloosa as Described in 1921 [1]

A post office and station on the Mobile and Ohio and the Alabama Great Southern railroads in the south central part of Tuscaloosa County. It is located on the Warrior River, at the falls, about 60 miles southwest of Birmingham and about 175 miles northwest of Montgomery.

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Neighborhoods

  • Audubon Place
  • Caplewood Drive Historic District
  • Covey Chase
  • Crimson Place
  • Fox Run
  • Highland Manor
  • Inverness
  • Manora Estates
  • Riverdale
  • Waterford
  • Waterford Gardens
  • Weatherby
  • Alberta Heights
  • Alpine Hills
  • Alpine Village
  • Alta Vista
  • Altamont
  • Arcadia
  • Arlington Mobile Home Park
  • Arrow Wood
  • Asbury
  • Ashbrook
  • Austin
  • Bar Wayne Circle
  • Barrett's Trace
  • Beech Hills
  • Bellview Heights
  • Berkley Hills
  • Beverley Heights
  • Box Springs
  • Brentwood
  • Briarwood
  • Broadview
  • Brookhaven
  • Brooksdale
  • Buena Vista
  • Burks Garden
  • Burnt Pine
  • Camellia Park
  • Campus Way
  • Candlelight Circle
  • Candlelight Terrace
  • Cedar Crest
  • Cedar Knoll
  • Cherokee Hills
  • Cherry Dale
  • Circlewood
  • Claymont
  • Cloverdale
  • College Hills
  • Colonial Hills
  • Colony Hills
  • Country Club Gables
  • Country Club Hills
  • Coventry
  • Dearing Place
  • Deep Wood
  • Deven Dale
  • Diamond Ridge
  • Dixon Manor
  • Druid Hills
  • Durrett Grove
  • East Arlington
  • East End
  • East Lake
  • East Park
  • Eastlake
  • Easton Place
  • Eastover
  • Eastwood Villa
  • Echo Hill
  • El Dorado
  • Fernridge
  • Fernwood
  • Fields Crossing
  • Fieldstone Crossing
  • Fitts Heights
  • Forest Hills
  • Forest Lake
  • Forestasia
  • Fosters
  • Georgena Terrace
  • Glendale Gardens
  • Green Grove
  • Green Hills
  • Green Valley
  • Greenbriar
  • Greenview
  • Guilds Woods
  • Hagler Mill Estates
  • Hambright
  • Happy Acres
  • Harbrooke Downs
  • Hays Court
  • Heritage Hills
  • Hickory Forest
  • High Forest
  • Highland Park
  • Hillcrest
  • Hillcrest Gardens
  • Hillsdale
  • Hillswood
  • Hinton Place
  • Hobson Acres
  • Hollywood Park
  • Howton
  • Huntland
  • Idlewood
  • Indian Hills
  • Ingleside Village
  • Kennedy Park
  • La Vera
  • Lake Cove
  • Lake Forest
  • Lake Shore
  • Lakeridge
  • Lakeview
  • Laurel Hills
  • Laurel Wood
  • Lavelle Woods
  • Lenox South
  • Lexington Downs
  • Lincoln Park
  • Livingston
  • Lynn Haven
  • Lynndale
  • Lynnwood Park
  • Magnolia
  • Magnolia Village
  • Mallard Creek
  • Manly Heights
  • Mariners Cove
  • Mayfair
  • McKenzie Courts
  • Meadow Lawn
  • Meadowbrook
  • Mimosa Manor
  • Monte Vista
  • Morayshire Estates
  • Myrtlewood
  • Neptunes Cove
  • Northridge Gardens
  • Oak Grove
  • Oak Ridge
  • Oakdale
  • Oxford Gate
  • Park Forest
  • Parkside
  • Parkview
  • Parkwood
  • Patton Place
  • Pine Hill
  • Pine Hills
  • Pine Park
  • Pinedale
  • Pinehurst
  • Princeton Heights
  • Princeton Place
  • Quail Ridge Mobile Home Park
  • Regal Pointe
  • Remington
  • Reserve at North River
  • Reston Place
  • Ridgecrest
  • Ridgehaven
  • Ridgeland
  • Riverchase
  • Rivermont
  • Riverpoint
  • Riverside Circle
  • Riverview
  • Riverwood
  • Rollingwood
  • Rosedale
  • Rosedale Courts
  • Rosewood
  • Royal Pines
  • Sahama Village
  • Sherwood
  • Skelton Bend Estates
  • Sky Ranch
  • Skyland
  • Skyland Manor
  • Skyland Park
  • Snow Terrace
  • Sommerville
  • South Hampton
  • South Highlands
  • South Park
  • South Pointe
  • Southwood
  • Spring Brook
  • Springhill Lake
  • Staffordshire Place
  • Standridge
  • Stonehedge
  • Summerfield
  • Sutton Place
  • Sycamore
  • Taylor Circle
  • Terri Wood
  • The Downs
  • The Glens
  • The Highlands
  • The Staffords
  • The Vineyards
  • Timberlane
  • Twin Circle
  • University Downs
  • University Manor
  • University Place
  • Vali Hi
  • Vali-Hi
  • Valley View
  • Vista Granda
  • Warrior Heights
  • Washington Square
  • Wesley Chapel
  • West Haven
  • Whispering Hills
  • Wood Manor
  • Wood Ridge
  • Wood Villas
  • Woodbank
  • Woodland Forest
  • Woodland Forrest Gardens
  • Woodland Hills
  • Woodland Hills
  • Woodland Park
  • Woodland Pines
  • Woodland Terrace
  • Woodland Trace
  • Yacht Club Bay

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In 1809, when the government at Washington was establishing trading posts throughout Mississippi Territory, a Creek chief, by the name of Ocechemotla, obtained the consent of the Choctaws to locate a settlement known as Black Warrior Town at the falls of the Warrior River. This settlement was visited by Tecumseh, the Shawnee chief, on his return from the Alibamo towns. This expedition had been undertaken with a view to enlisting the Southern Indians in a general uprising against the whites. After the massacre at Fort Mims and the sanguinary events following in its wake, the garrison at Seminole Fort at Warrior Town was captured and the settlement was destroyed.

In 1815 Isaac Cannon and John Wilson came to Warrior Town selecting an old Indian field, near Seminole Fort, as a place of settlement. The early inhabitants came to this section from the upper districts of the Carolinas and Georgia, first migrating to Tennessee and later to Alabama. Patrick Scott, Jonathan York, John Barton, Joseph Tilley and William Wilson were among these early settlers. William Wilson built the first log hut near where the old State capitol now stands and Jonathan York built the first board shanty in the county of Tuscaloosa. The first frame residence of any size was erected by William R. Colgin and the first brick residence by Dr. James Guild.

Tuscaloosa was incorporated by an Act of the general assembly of Alabama, approved December 13, 1819. On January 12, 1828, a new charter was granted and this and all subsequent charters confine its limits to sections south of the Warrior River. The population in 1817 numbered about 200 people and had increased to 600 at the time of the land sales in 1821.

In 1826, the State Capitol was removed from Cahaba to Tuscaloosa where it remained until its removal to Montgomery in 1845. On December 29, 1827, Tuscaloosa was selected by the general assembly as the location of the State University.

  1. Thomas McAdory Owen, LL.D., History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Bibliography, Volume II, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, 1921.

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