There's a lot of Tuscaloosa history in these 1968 William A. Smith murals which have been in storage since 2012. The mural of Andrew Ellicott shows the transit which Ellicott may have brought to Alabama in 1799. Ellicott was in Alabama at that time to survey the first Southern Boundary of the U.S., a portion of which serves today as our Alabama-Florida line between Flomaton and the Chattahoochee in Houston County. Ellicott set up a stone 23 miles north of Mobile as a mile marker on this survey and that rock became the initial point for the legal description of all property in South Alabama. The land in Tuscaloosa County south of the Freeman  Line is in South Alabama and all legal descriptions of property there tell you where you are in relation to Ellicott's Stone, set up by Ellicott in 1799 near the bank of the Mobile River next to the present-day Barry Steam Plant. Smith's mural of Francis Scott Key is also included in this album. He came to Alabama in 1833 to negotiate an Indian problem with the State of Alabama. After this mission to Tuscaloosa, he became the legal representative of the contractors seeking damages because Congress had abandoned for the construction of the fortification on Dauphin Island in 1821.

There's a lot of Houston County history in these 1968 William A. Smith murals which have been in storage since 2012. The mural of Andrew Ellicott shows the transit which Ellicott brought to Houston County in 1799 .  Ellicott was in Alabama at that time to survey the first Southern Boundary of the U.S., a portion of which serves today as our Alabama-Florida line between Flomaton and the Chattahoochee in Houston County. Ellicott set up a stone 23 miles north of Mobile as a mile marker on this survey and that rock, now called Ellicott's Stone, became the initial point for the legal description of all property in South Alabama. All legal descriptions of property in Dothan tell you how far you are from Ellicott's Stone.  Smith's mural of Francis Scott Key is also included in this album. He came to Alabama in 1833 to negotiate an Indian problem with the State of Alabama. (this was the Indian Reservation that had it's south boundary north of Abbeville before 1836).  After this mission to Tuscaloosa, he became the legal representative of the contractors seeking damages because Congress had abandoned for the construction of the fortification on Dauphin Island in 1821.

There's a lot of Mobile history in these 1968 William A. Smith murals which have been in storage since 2012. The mural of Andrew Ellicott shows the transit which Ellicott brought to Alabama in 1799. Ellicott was in Alabama at that time to survey the first Southern Boundary of the U.S., a portion of which serves today as out Alabama-Florida line between Flomaton and the Chattahoochee in Houston County. Ellicott set up a stone 23 miles north of Mobile as a mile marker on this survey and that rock became the initial point for the legal description of all property in South Alabama. Legal descriptions of property in Mobile tell you where you are in relation to Ellicott's Stone, set up by Ellicott in 1799 near the bank of the Mobile River next to the present-day Barry Steam Plant. Smith's mural of Francis Scott Key is also included in this album. He came to Alabama in 1833 to negotiate an Indian problem with the State of Alabama. After this mission to Tuscaloosa, he became the legal representative of the contractors seeking damages because Congress had abandoned for the construction of the fortification on Dauphin Island in 1821.