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Hornet Row (northwest corner of 23rd Avenue (Monroe Street) and 6th Street (Cotton Street)
According to the 1986 Downtown Tuscaloosa Historic District Nomination Form for the National Register of Historic Places, "40. 2306-2308 6th St. (Ward Law Office/Sun Loan); c. 1894; these store fronts
show a later remodelling of the original cast-iron fronts. A column from
the earlier cast-iron facade is visible on the left (west) side of the
building."

from the February 9, 1941 Evansville Press

Hornet Row (northwest corner of 23rd Avenue (Monroe Street) and 6th Street (Cotton Street)

from the September 1, 1868 TUSCALOOSA INDEPENDENT MONITOR

from the December 29, 1868 TUSCALOOSA INDEPENDENT MONITOR

from the September 27, 1870 TUSCALOOSA INDEPENDENT MONITOR

from the January 5, 1876 TUSCALOOSA WEEKLY TIMES

from the January 8, 1880 TUSKALOOSA GAZETTE

from the January 14, 1904 TUSCALOOSA TIMES-GAZETTE

from the March 4, 1904 Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette

from the March 25, 1904 BIRMINGHAM NEWS

from the July 13, 1904 Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette

from the August 7, 1904 Tuscaloosa News

According to

"  Why  do  yon  mountain  turns  the  musing  eye, 
Whose  sun-bright  summit  mingles  with  the  sky — 
Why  do  the  cliffs  of  shadowy  tint  appear 
More  sweet  than  all  the  landscape  smiling  near. 
'Tis  distance  lends  enchantment  to  the  view, 
And  robes  the  mountain  in  its  azure  hue." 

Thomas Campbell's Pleasures  of  Hope.

from the July 23, 1904 TUSCALOOSA TIMES-GAZETTE

William H. Jack

Jack County, Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_County,_Texas

Patrick C. Jack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_C._Jack

https://www.sanjacinto-museum.org/Library/Veteran_Bios/Bio_page/?id=442&army=Texian

JACK, WILLIAM HOUSTON -- Born April 12, 1806 in Wilkes County, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1827 after which he studied and was admitted to the bar. He moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama and there practiced his profession. In 1829 he was elected a member of the State Legislature. In 1830 he emigrated to Texas and settled at San Felipe. His brother Patrick C. Jack with others was thrown in prison at Anahuac by John Davis Bradburn, Commander of the post. William H. Jack and others went to their rescue and while at Turtle Bayou waiting for an answer to demand sent to Bradburn, Mr. Jack wrote the "Turtle Bayou Resolutions," signed by all present.

On August 15, 1835, Mr. Jack was elected a member of the Committee of Safety and Correspondence for the jurisdiction of Columbia (Brazoria). He received Bounty Certificate No. 996 for 320 acres of land, December 15, 1837 for serving in the army from March 1 to May 30, 1836.

He was a member of Captain William H. Patton's Columbia Company at San Jacinto and on December 19, 1838 was issued Donation Certificate No. 707 for 640 acres of land for having participated in the battle.

Mr. Jack was appointed Secretary of State by President Burnet serving until in October, 1836. He represented Brazoria County in the House of Representatives of the First, Fourth and Eighth Congresses of the Republic and in the Senate of the Sixth and Seventh. In 1842 he participated in the Vasquez Campaign.

Senator Jack died August 20, 1844 at the residence of Hiram G. Runnels, former Governor of Mississippi, in Brazoria County, of yellow fever. His remains and those of his brothers, Spencer and Patrick C. Jack, were later moved to Galveston and reinterred in Lack View Cemetery.

Jack County was named in honor of William H. and Patrick C. Jack.

Senator William H. Jack was married to Laura Harrison, daughter of Isham Harrison of Mississippi. Their children were: Hally Patrick, who married William Pitt Ballenger on April 30, 1850; Laura, who married Guy Morrison Bryan; and Thomas McKinney Jack, who married Nannie Knox.

To the natural man untainted with the greed of gain, the distant past is full of the spirit of poetry and fine romance; the present is raw and prosaic.

The average American, engrossed in all his thoughts of commercialism, is apt to neglect, even if he does not sneer at the memories and traditions of the glorified past. The average American is missing in this way much of the happiness that naturally belongs to man on this side of the grave.

Of many events connected with the early history of Tuscaloosa only vague tradition remains. The twilight of uncertainty is already casting its shadow over some things that yet linger in the memory of the oldest living inhabitants. Presently the night of oblivion will come down and hide what is left. from the July 23, 1904 TUSCALOOSA TIMES-GAZETTE

J.A. Bozman tribute

from the December 23, 1903 TUSCALOOSA NEWS

from the December 12, 1903 TUSCALOOSA NEWS

from the March 26, 1903 FORT SMITH TIMES

from the August 20, 1891 Tuskaloosa Gazette

"From the terrible conditions of the present I have turned back to the past, for a little joy and a great deliverance." Violet Tweedale

1904: The Tuscaloosa City Council condemned "the time-smitten range of buildings known as Hornet's Row."

To the natural man untainted with the greed of gain, the distant past is full of the spirit of poetry and fine romance; the present is raw and prosaic.

Of the many events connected with the early history of Tuscaloosa only vague tradition remains. The twilight of uncertainty is already casting its shadow over some things that yet linger in the memory of the oldest living inhabitants. Presently the night of oblivion will come down and hide what is left.

"They were bent not on the good of society but on the gratification of the greed of gain that consumed their sordid souls."