Victor Hugo Friedman, University of Alabama Class of '97, was Tuscaloosa's greatest benefactor. Among his many accomplishments for this community, he preserved the Jemison House by giving it to the City.http://www.msje.org/history/archive/al/tuscaloosa.html


A lot of early sandlot football got played around the Jemison House. Three of the VandeGraaf brothers who were born & raised in the old house on Greensboro Ave., Adrian , Hargrove & William Travis "Bully",all played for the Crimson Tide during the 1912 season,Adrian's Senior year. Bully was BAMA'S FIRST ALL AMERICAN. Their Daddy, Adrian S. VandeGraaf owned the Jemison House & played on Yale's first 11 man football team in 1880. I'm collecting images related to the Jemison House because 2012 is it's 150th birthday & it's going to be celebrated during the Alabama Museum Association's meeting here in Tuscaloosa in Feb. http://www.alabama.travel/events/alabama_museum_association_annual_meeting_-_web_su