Tuscaloosa
a city and county-seat of Tuscaloosa co., Ala.; on the Black Warrior river, and on the Alabama Great Southern, the Louisville and Nashville, and the Mobile and Ohio railroads, miles S. W. of Birmingham. It contains TUSCI a court house, a lunatic asylum, the Alabama Central Female College (Bapt .) , the University of Alabama, the Tuscaloosa Female College (M. E.), the Stillman Institute for Colored Students several libraries, National (Pres.), banks and a number of daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. It has large cotton and coal interests. Pop . (1910) 8,407; (1920) 11,996.