Group Honors Tuscaloosa's Revolutionary Patriots, 250 Years Later

A group of women in Tuscaloosa have spent this season of special attention and appreciation for American veterans honoring the first of their kind - those who served in the Revolutionary War.

The Daughters of the American Revolution have chapters across the country, and here the 150 women of the Chief Tuskaloosa Chapter have recognized those first patriots in two public places.

At the Tuscaloosa Veterans Park in front of the University Mall, they dedicated a new marker honoring the men who served in the Revolutionary War.

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Their Chapter Regent, Dawn Crocker, was joined by the State Regent Malinda Williams in a service to dedicate the marker.

"The United States will be celebrating its 250th birthday in 2026. This marker will stand as a lasting legacy to remind us of the sacrifices of our founding Patriots, We are grateful for PARA's assistance in placing the marker here at Veterans Park," Crocker said.

Tuscaloosa's Greenwood Cemetery is also the final resting place of five American Revolution veterans, and the Daughters have added signs with scannable QR codes which direct visitors to biographies of each man.

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They also worked with the VA to place a marker in memory of a sixth man, John Webster, who was buried in the city's Oakwood Cemetery before it was destroyed in 1911 to make way for the L&N Railroad. Since his original grave was somewhere in the area where the Saban Center will be built, the DAR place a marker instead at Greenwood.

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