For everybody out there WAITING ON THE TUSCALOOSA BICENTENNIAL, the wait is over: IT HAPPENED TWO YEARS AGO! In 1916 they recognized the fact that the first white folks showed up in May of 1816 and had their TUSCALOOSA CENTENNIAL celebration in May, 1916. Another important date is March 3, 1817 because that was the day the enabling legislation that created ALABAMA TERRITORY also reserved from public sale the south fraction of Section 22, Township 21, Range 10, West.(that's the land between the River and 15th Street where the original city was laid out in 1821. THE TUSCALOOSA BICENTENNIAL will occur next year, probably in December because the town was incorporated in Cahaba on December 13, 1819) Reposting my map of OLD TUSCALOOSA for any of y'all who wanna get into that "BICENTENNIAL STATE OF MIND." The best use of this map is to put it up as your screen saver. That way, every time you turn on your computer, you're looking @ SPRING, PINE, BROAD, COTTON, UNION, PIKE or maybe EAST MARGIN, BEAR, YORK, COLLEGE, MADISON, MONROE, MARKET, WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, FRANKLIN, JACKSON, BROWN, DEER. Without this map, pre-1902 issues of Tuscaloosa newspapers are unintelligible. http://www.alabamapioneers.com/newtown-tuscaloosa-alabama/