October 24, 1816: Treaty of the Choctaw Indian Trading House Treaty: Ratified Indian Treaty 85: Choctaw - Choctaw Trading House, October 24, 1816 (digitreaties.org)

March 3, 1817: Fractional Section 22 of Township 21 South, Range 10 West designated by the President for the purpose of laying out and establishing a town and reserved from public auction United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 62 - Wikisource, the free online library

May 24, 1824: Congress granted to the corporation of Tuskaloosa a title to the public streets and other rights of the general government in the land composing the city.  

 from the August 17, 1824 National Standard (Middlebury, Vermont)

BROWNE-RANDALL HOUSE (1879) https://tavm.omeka.net/items/show/1025

 

from the August 20, 1891 TUSKALOOSA GAZETTE

 

 

from the May 4, 1887 TUSCALOOSA WEEKLY TIMES

from the November 28, 1903 BIRMINGHAM NEWS: "On May 24, 1824, Congress granted to the corporation of Tuskaloosa a title to the public streets and other rights of the general government in the land composing the city."

from the January 15, 1891 TUSKALOOSA GAZETTE (Letter to the Editor against fencing cows inside city limits)

from the September 26, 1902 Tuskaloosa Gazette

TUSCALOOSA NEWS

from the June 20, 1921 

from the May 28, 1836 Tuskaloosa Flag of the Union

 

 

 

Tuscaloosa's city blocks are 5 chains long and 4 chains wide. The original length of a football field was 5 chains.

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In the “Official Foot Ball Rules” published in 1906, the measures of the Football field were specified. This surface had to be a rectangle 330 feet long and 160 feet wide, and it had to be marked with lines parallel to the goal lines, at 5-yard intervals.

Those 330 feet equals 110 yards, which was the distance a team originally had to run to get a touchdown (which – according to that rulebook – was worth 5 points).

In 1912, the field was adjusted to 100 yards because many fields barely had enough room to meet the original 110.

The reason why the football field originally measured 110 yards is unclear, but apparently it has to do with the dimensions used on the rugby and soccer fields in England, which were around that length.

The current fields measure 120 yards, 100 yards are for the play area, while 10 yards at each end are for the end zones. However, the Canadian league still retains the original 110 yards on its playing surface, totaling 150 yards on its fields