Jefferson County’s Bicentennial: Fueling Growth As State’s Economic Engine

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.For the Birmingham TimesJefferson County turns 200 this month, but it gave itself a present in 2018—when the county commission hired renowned Tuskegee, Ala., artist Ronald Scott McDowell to craft a mural to complement the “Old South” and “New South” murals done by John Warner Norton when the courthouse was constructed in 1932.
Norton’s works had raised the ire of many because they depicted a time that had long passed. “Old South&rd