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Prewitt
Slave Cemetery The cemetery is located just off Byler Road, the oldest public road in Alabama. The cemetery is on the site of the former plantation of the Prewitt family who settled the area in about 1820 and are said to have imported some of their slaves directly from Africa. After the Civil War, many of the former Prewitt slaves continued to live in the area and buried their dead here.
This neo-classical revival house was built in1904 by George Searcy, a prominent Tuscaloosa banker and businessman. It once featured a massive portico of six large fluted Ionic columns across the front. Restored in 1968 for use as offices for the County Board of Education, it is the only surviving house on that part of the once predominantly residential Greensboro Avenue.
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