Editing Tuscaloosa County, Alabama (section)

===Early settlement===
The pace of white settlement in the Southeast increased greatly after the [[War of 1812]] and the [[Treaty of Fort Jackson]] and the subsequent availability of land previously settled by Native Americans. A small assortment of log cabins soon arose near the large [[Creek (people)|Creek]] village at the fall line of the river, which the new settlers named in honor of the sixteenth-century [[Chief Tuskaloosa]].<ref name="aces">"ACES Winston County Office" (links/history), [[Alabama Cooperative Extension System]] (ACES), 2007, webpage:  [http://www.aces.edu/counties/Tuscaloosa/ ACES-Tuscaloosa].</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=United States Census Bureau|title=2010 Census Data|url=http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/|access-date=May 12, 2012|publisher=United States Census Bureau|archive-date=October 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016135253/http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data|url-status=dead}}</ref> of a [[Muskogean languages|Muskogean]]-speaking tribe and paramount chief of the [[Mississippian culture]]. To form the word, they combined the Choctaw words "tushka" or "tashka" ("warrior") and "lusa" ("black").

In 1817, [[Alabama]] became a [[Alabama Territory|territory]]. Tuscaloosa County was established on February 6, 1818. On December 13, 1819, the territorial legislature incorporated the town of Tuskaloosa- now Tuscaloosa - one day before [[United States Congress|Congress]] admitted Alabama the [[United States|Union]] as a [[U.S. state|state]].

From 1826 to 1846, Tuskaloosa was the [[List of capitals in the United States|capital]] of Alabama. The State House was built at the corner of 6th Street and 28th Avenue (now the site of Capitol Park). In 1831, the [[University of Alabama]] was established.