Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Northport, AL

Northport is a city in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, standing on the north bank of the Black Warrior River directly across from downtown Tuscaloosa.

Northport was first settled in 1813 and was originally called Kentuck, or Canetuck, after the dense canebrakes that grew along the river.

The settlement was officially named Northport in 1832, for its role as the port on the north side of the river, and a post office and ferry service were established that same year.

Northport grew up at the historic head of navigation on the Black Warrior River at the fall line, where cotton warehouses and gins lined both banks of the river.

Northport's first newspaper, the Northport Spectator, was established in 1870, and the town was officially incorporated in 1871.

Northport had 31,125 residents at the 2020 census, making it one of the twenty most populous cities in Alabama.

Northport hosts the Kentuck Festival of the Arts each October, a major folk and contemporary art festival that draws hundreds of artists and up to 20,000 visitors.

The Kentuck Art Center operates year-round in downtown Northport with a gallery and artist studios, and after 52 years in Northport's Kentuck Park, the festival moved across the river to Tuscaloosa in 2024.

Each December, on the first Tuesday of the month, Northport holds Dickens Downtown, a festival that recreates the nineteenth-century England of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

The Northport Heritage Museum, opened in 2001 and housed in a historic 1907 home, displays artifacts, documents, and photographs tracing the city's development.