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XXI.
TUSCALOOSA COUNTY.

    Population: White, 15,216; colored, 9,741. Area, square miles, 1,390.
Woodland, all. Gravelly hills and long-leaf pines, 675. Coal measures 965 square
miles.

    Acres—In cotton (approximately), 33,773; in corn, 38,638; in oats, 6,974; in
wheat, 2,689; in rye, 130; in sugar-cane, 35; in tobacco, 20: in sweet potatoes,
919. Approximate number of bales of cotton, 12,000.

    County Seat—Tuscaloosa; population, 2,500; located on Black Warrior River at
the head of steamboat navigation, and on Alabama Great Southern Railroad.

    Newspapers published at County Seat—Gazette, Times and Alabama
University—the former Democratic and the latter educational.

    Postoffices in the County—Binion's Creek, Clement's Depot, Coaling,
Cottondale, Dudley, Fosters, Hagler, Hayes, Hybernia, Hickman's, Hull, Humphrey,
Jena, Leled Lane, McConnell's, Marcumville, Moore's Bridge, New Lexington,
Northport, Odenheim, Olmsted Station, Oregonia, Reuben, Romulus, Samantha,
Sipsey Turnpike, Skelton, Sylvan, Tannehill, Tuscaloosa, Tyner, Waldo, White Cloud.

    Tuscaloosa County was established February 7. 1818.

    Its original northern boundary was that 0f the present counties of Marion
and Winston. It was named for the river Tuscaloosa, which flows through it. The
name is from the Choctaw words, tusca, warrior, loosa. black, hence
Black-warrior. The northern and northeastern portions of the. county contains
the finest long-leaf, yellow pine forests in the State. Poplar, ash, white oak,
hickory and beech, and others of the forest trees, some of which are marvelous
in size. Coal, iron ore and fire clays abound throughout the entire county.

    In addition to the Queen and Crescent, several railroads have been projected
and surveyed, and a large force is now constructing one, the Tuscaloosa
Northern, which crosses the Warrior nine miles above the city, and will pass the
great coal and timber belt north and northeast of the city, and connect with the
Georgia Pacific at Ada, and thence with the great St. Louis & Memphis systems,
giving access to the great West. The Gulf & Chicago has been surveyed from
Florence to Mobile, developing a remarkably low grade considering the rough
country through which the northern division passes. The Mobile & Tuscaloosa has
also been surveyed, which will be extended to Natchez via Jackson. In addition
is another important railroad, the Great Northwestern, which is to be built from
Montgomery through the Cahaba and Warrior coal-fields, via Tuscaloosa to Sheffield.

    The Tuscaloosa Cotton Mills, with about 200 looms, started six years ago
with $40,000 capital, and has paid out over $250,000 to employes. The yarn mills
of L. P. Gander run about 3,000 spindles, and have doubled their output within
the last year. These are located on the river front, and are models of success.
The Cottondale Mills have been equally successful. In addition to these, four or
five extensive brickyards are in successful operation.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.


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