Sandburg once said, “When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.”

“The name of Captain Ely appears In the abstracts for most of the land in the immediate Birmingham district. The titles all run back to ‘Capt. William Ely, trustee for the Hartford Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb.’ "A number of prominent people followed Captain Ely from Connectlcutt. Among the number besides Thomas F. Farar was Judge E.

Woolsey Peck, who was at one time on the supreme court bench of Alabama. Judge Peck was the father of Samuel Min turn Peck, the well known poet of Tuskaloosa."

YMCA Building, 2014 Broad Street, Circa 1908 · Tuscaloosa Area Virtual Museum 

1957 Tuscaloosa City Map Viewing States/Alabama/Counties/tuscaloosa/Tuscaloosa1957a.sid

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