Buck House https://tavm.omeka.net/items/show/515
According to this 1908 T-News article, the Buck House, for which the carriage house was an outbuilding, ain't as old as the Tuscaloosa Area Virtual Museum claims. The writer in 1908 says it was built by L.V.B. Martin. TAVM says it was built in 1820. L.V.B. Martin wasn't born until nine years later. Martin was law partners with J. H. Fitts. Martin also married Fitts' sister, Susie. Fitts was the Tuscaloosa banker who put together the financing to build Woods Hall during Reconstruction when everybody , INCLUDING THE STATE OF ALABAMA, was flat broke and had no credit. After the Civil War, Martin became a scalawag but he lost his temper with the Radical Republican Federal judge in Mobile so he shot him twice and missed once. (from the November 19, 1908 TUSCALOOSA NEWS)
from the December 30, 1867 RICHMOND DISPATCH
According to this 1908 T-News article, the Buck House, for which the carriage house was an outbuilding, ain't as old as the Tuscaloosa Area Virtual Museum claims. The writer in 1908 says it was built by L.V.B. Martin. TAVM says it was built in 1820. L.V.B. Martin wasn't born until nine years later. Martin was law partners with J. H. Fitts. Martin also married Fitts' sister, Susie. Fitts was the Tuscaloosa banker who put together the financing to build Woods Hall during Reconstruction when everybody , INCLUDING THE STATE OF ALABAMA, was flat broke and had no credit. After the Civil War, Martin became a scalawag but he lost his temper with the Radical Republican Federal judge in Mobile so he shot him twice and missed once. (from the November 19, 1908 TUSCALOOSA NEWS)
Judge Richard Busteed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Busteed
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