proposal for a historical marker to be erected on Queen City Avenue in 2021:

THE TOWN PLAT OF TUSCALOOSA, 1821

On Friday, October 4, 1816, The Choctaw Indians extinguished their title to this property when they signed a treaty which ceded all of their land east of the Tombigbee River to the United States. On March 3, 1817, the U.S. Congress reserved from public land sale this Section 22 of Township 21 South, Range 10 West (Huntsville Meridian). Queen City Avenue runs north to south along the eastern margin line of this land section. On January 9, 1821, the commissioner of the General Land Office, ordered General John Coffee, Surveyor General for the State of Alabama, to survey this section of land. This survey laid out all of the original city of Tuscaloosa's streets at right angles to the present-day intersection of Greensboro Avenue and University Boulevard. In the fall of 1821, Colonel John McKee, registrar of the land office in Tuscaloosa, began to auction off town lots. With only a few alterations, the present layout of the city blocks and streets in the original city of Tuscaloosa preserves and brings down to us to this day the Town Plat Survey of Tuscaloosa, 1821.