Many years ago I proposed erecting a historic marker on the triangle of land just south of the location of Sam Jackson's (Avery's) on Queen City (a copy of that proposal is at the end of this post). This eleven day quest to commemorate THIS DAY, Friday (THE HOLIDAY), OCTOBER 29, 2021, the 200th anniversary of THE 1821 TUSCALOOSA TOWN PLAT).

Well, y'all, as of today, I've changed the location of that proposed marker. Now I think it should be placed near where the clock stands now @ the corner of Greensboro and University. I believe that to be the initial point of the survey and the lines radiating out from that point determined the rest of the subdivision of the township section that made up old Tuscaloosa.

 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. On Monday, October 29, 1821, Colonel John McKee, registrar of the Tuscaloosa Land Office, 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.