Thu, Aug 28
|Lloyd Hall Room 38
Historic Tuscaloosa Lecture Series | 2025
Come join us for a series of lectures that explore the fundamentals of historic preservation. Historic Tuscaloosa features live lectures from preservation professionals with a wide range of backgrounds and expertise, and includes interaction between participants and presenters through Q&A sessions
Time & Place
Aug 28, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Lloyd Hall Room 38, 503 6th Ave, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401, USA
Information
August 2025 Press Release
Historic Tuscaloosa will continue its summertime lecture series on Thursday, August 28, at 5:30 p.m. Dr. Cameron Lacquement will present his lecture on “The History of the Walker Cemetery - An Early 19th Century Cemetery of Tuscaloosa.” This event is open to the public and free of charge.
Dr. Lacquement, an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Anthropology Department at the University of Alabama, will discuss the history and changes of an early 19th-century family cemetery in Tuscaloosa. Historically known as the Walker cemetery, Old Boys Colony at Munny Sokol Park, the site had been “completely lost to time,” but could be the first unsegregated cemetery in Tuscaloosa County. He will also discuss the different grave styles, changes to the cemetery into the early 20th century, and cemetery preservation/restoration. Dr. Lacquement oversaw anthropology students as they uncovered the history behind the recently discovered cemetery. Lacquement…