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TUSCALOOSA , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of Tuscaloosa county, See also:Alabama, U.S.A., in the See also:west-central See also:part of the See also:state, on the See also:Black See also:Warrior See also:river, about 55 M. S.W. of See also:Birmingham and about too m. N.W. of See also:Montgomery. Pop. (1900), 5094; (See also:local See also:census, 1908), 7140 (3551 negroes); (19io U.S. census), 8407. It is served by the Alabama See also:Great See also:Southern and the See also:Mobile & See also:Ohio See also:railways. The Black Warrior river, formerly not navigable beyond Tuscaloosa, has been improved by the See also:United States See also:government, and there are three locks in or near the city. Tuscaloosa lies between the foothills of the Appalachians to the See also:north-See also:east and the See also:low alluvial valley of the Black Warrior. It has many old-fashioned residences and gardens, and a See also:fine Federal See also:building. It is the seat of the university of Alabama; of the Alabama Central See also:Female See also:College (Baptist,
1858), which occupies the old state capitol; of the Tusca-
loosa Female College (Methodist Episcopal, See also:South, 186o);
of See also:Stillman See also:Institute (Presbyterian, 1876; originally the
Tuscaloosa Institute for the See also:Education of Coloured Ministers; named in hdnour of its founder, Dr See also: On the 4th of See also:April 1865 all the buildings of the university, except the See also:observatory, were burned by a See also:body of Federal See also:cavalry, and the university was closed thereafter until 1869; in 1884 the United States government gave another 46,080 acres of public lands in restitution, and in 1907 the state legislature appropriated $445,000 for new buildings. The university is a part of the public. school See also:system of the state, and is governed by a See also:board of trustees, consisting of the See also:governor and the See also:superintendent of education of the state, of two members from the congressional See also:district in which the university is situated, and of one member from each of the other congressional districts of the state. The university includes, besides a college and a See also:graduate school, departments of See also:engineering, See also:law, See also:medicine (formerly the Medical College of Alabama, established in 1859) and See also:pharmacy (the two last in Mobile), and a summer school for teachers, and in 1908-9 had 6o instructors and 887 students. In the city there are several manufacturing establishments, principally See also:cotton and See also:lumber See also:mills; and in the immediate vicinity there are important See also:coal, See also:coke and See also:iron interests—there is a large iron See also:furnace, See also:pipe foundry and coking plant at See also:Holt, about 4 M. north-east of the city. Tuscaloosa derives its name from an See also:Indian See also:chief, who, after a desperate See also:battle with De See also:Soto at Mauvilla (the site of which is not definitely known) in 1540, is said to have hanged himself in See also:order to See also:escape See also:capture, and is commemorated by a See also:granite monolith in the See also:Court See also:House Square; the name is said to mean " black warrior." The first See also:settlement of whites was made in 1815. The city was chartered in 1819, and in 1826-1846 it was the capital of Alabama. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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