The two large buildings in the middle of the bottom margin of the image are the Episcopal church (labeled "F") and the old Baptist church. This is the same Episcopal church which still stands on the corner of Lurleen B. Wallace-North (Washington Street) and 6th Street (Cotton Street). Allen and Jemison demolished the old Baptist church to build their warehouse and lumber yard after the publication of this 1887 map. The new education building for the Episcopal church now stands on this corner of 7th Street (Union Street) and Lurleen-North (Washington Street). Diagonally across the street from the old Baptist church was the childhood home of James Robert Maxwell. I believe that  antebellum house is pictured on this 1887 map. This property is now occupied by the county offices on the block behind the courthouse. The house to the north, directly across from the Maxwell's was M.D.J. Slade's house on the corner of Lurleen-North (Washington Street) and 7th Street (Union Street). That property is now occupied by a gymnasium. Slade was editor of the Tuscaloosa Independent Monitor and owned two large tortoises who made their burrows in Slade's backyard. Slade's newspaper office was located two blocks to the north where the old ABC store now stands on the corner of Lurleen-North (Washington Street) and University (Broad or Main Street). On the NE corner of the block south of James Robert Maxwell childhood home was the Catholic church (labeled "G") which is still standing on the corner of Lurleen-North (Washington Street) and 8th Street (Pike Street). The lot directly south of the old Baptist church (present-day courthouse block) was the Maxwell family vegetable garden. That property is now occupied by the rear of the courthouse. The house on the NE corner of this block about where our courthouse now stands was James Robert Maxwell's grandfather's house. I believe this antebellum house to be pictured on this 1887 map. Directly across 7th Street (Union Street) was the Odd Fellows Hall where Woodruff had his school. This building faced Greensboro (Market Street). I believe you can see this antebellum building on this 1887 map. On this map you can see a vacant lot behind the Odd Fellows Hall. This served as the playground for the Woodruff school students and where they played "town ball", a precursor to baseball with its own Tuscaloosa rules that made the game something like dodge ball with a hard baseball.

The NE corner of the block south of James Robert Maxwell's grandfather's house was occupied by the Methodist church and parsonage. The main chapel of First Methodist continues to occupy this property in the present day. On the SW corner of this block  was the house of Mrs. Raoul, her son and two daughters. This is on the corner of Lurleen North (Washington Street) and 9th Street (Lauderdale Street). One of the Raoul girls married Captain Lumsden who taught at the University but resigned to form Tuscaloosa's local unit, Lumsden's Battery. On the SE corner of this block next to the Methodist church was the home of Dr. Reuben Searcy whose sons became noted Alabama physicians. I believe that on this antebellum house is pictured on the 1887 map.  On the NW corner of the Methodist's church's block was occupied by the Captain Richardson of the steamboat OPHELIA's family. Directly across Greensboro Avenue (Market Street) from the Methodist church on the NW corner of the block was the Fiquet House ,where, according to the Barbara Little's August 1861 letter I transcribed, on the same day Tuscaloosa received the first news that fighting had commenced, Mr. Fiquet prepared a wagon filled with supplies to ship to Tuscaloosa boys who were involved in the first major battles of the Civil War. In the middle of the upper margin of the image you see the columned Rosenau house which was built by the Eddins family on the corner of Greensboro (Market) and 8th Street (Pike Street) (the Rosenau house was demolished for the construction of a motel). The church labeled "C" across the street from the Rosenau house is the Presbyterian which continues to occupy this property. I believe the house with the ornate garden behind the church was the new Presbyterian parsonage which replaced the antebellum Hopkins family frame house which had a porch that extended along the length of the NW corner of the Presbyterian church's block. The SE corner of this block was occupied by a one story frame house of the widow Douthet.

 . Most of Tuscaloosa's white students attended elementary and "Jr. High" in two buildings on the north side @ the present-day intersection of Greensboro Avenue (Market Street) and 7th Street (Union Street). The large 3-story building labeled "A" at the corner of Greensboro and 6th Street (Cotton Street) is the Rising Virtue #4 Masonic Lodge. The Tuscaloosa County Courthouse was on the 2nd floor of this building. The Alston Building now stands on this lot. On the opposite or SW corner of this block was the Little family house where Mrs. Barbara Little had her primary school (in the 20th century the Little family built what was known as "the Little Block" on this property. I believe this is the building where Mr. Bill's used to be located. James Robert Maxwell states that the Diamond Theater [not the Blacks-only Diamond Movie Theater that was on the corner of 7th and 23rd] was located on that corner at the time he was writing his autobiography in 1923. Maxwell states that the trees planted on the median were water oaks but I bet some of them were willow oaks. Maxwell also states that chinaberry trees were planted along the sidewalk on the south side of the Little House. You can see a group of trees on the SW corner of this block. The house located directly across 7th Street from the Little house was Dr. Leland's. I believe it is pictured here in 1887. Directly across Greensboro from the Little house was the Odd Fellows Hall located at the present-day site of the Allen-Jemison building. This was the location of Woodruff's school which was more advanced than Mrs. Little's. On the NE corner of his block was the building that housed the City Hall on the second floor. It is labeled "A". The ground floor was an open-air meat market. Next to the City Hall and Market building was the calaboose or jail where owners sent their slaves so they could be given their 39 lashes for minor offenses from the town constable. Maxwell states that no retail establishments were on Greensboro before the Civil War and that the building on the present-day Shirt Shop corner was a furniture factory.