in the tuscaloosa news for March 10th an article about West Blocton.....very interesting history.....here is a small paragraph that was written about one of our ancestors on the Smith..... kim Blocton, the company town, began about where Main Street ends today and encompassed about 8 square miles. West Blocton sprang up on land owned and subdivided by Uriah Smith. Since it was west of Blocton, he called it West Blocton. The town existed from the mid-1880s and incorporated in 1901. http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/stories/17326newsarchivedstorypage.html www.tuscaloosanews.com

Kim, Thanks for posting this. For all of us separated from the Tuscaloosa by hundreds or thousands of miles: http://www.tuscaloosanews.com still has the story posted in the recent news section. Hank -----Original Message----- From: KM [mailto:MORRISKJ@prodigy.net] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 5:30 AM To: ALTUSCAL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ALTUSCAL] west blockton in the tuscaloosa news for March 10th an article about West Blocton.....very interesting history.....here is a small paragraph that was written about one of our ancestors on the Smith..... kim Blocton, the company town, began about where Main Street ends today and encompassed about 8 square miles. West Blocton sprang up on land owned and subdivided by Uriah Smith. Since it was west of Blocton, he called it West Blocton. The town existed from the mid-1880s and incorporated in 1901. http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/stories/17326newsarchivedstorypage.html www.tuscaloosanews.com ==== ALTUSCAL Mailing List ==== ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237