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‘A smouldering mass of brick and stone’: The ruins of Alabama’s capitol, burned in 1923
On Aug. 22, 1923, fire broke out at the historic state capitol building in Tuscaloosa ... “Where Wednesday morning the great, red-brick structure with its glittering dome, once the very center ...
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‘A smouldering mass of brick and stone’: The ruins of Alabama’s capitol, burned in 1923
On Aug. 22, 1923, fire broke out at the historic state capitol building in Tuscaloosa. It was Alabama’s second statehouse but at the time of the fire, it was being used as Alabama Central Female ...