{"id":1454,"slug":"little-round-house-tuscaloosa-alabama","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Little Round House is the spared — the '1865 burned' that's the campus torched, the 'one of few' that's the survived standing. The 'rented slaves' is the drummed — the 'Drum Corps' that's the enslaved musicians housed, the 'sentry shelter' that's the cadets' post. The 'West Point of the Confederacy' is the trained — the 'military school' that's the '60 converted, the 'munitions housed' that's the alert system.","The 'octagon' is the ancient — the 'Gothic castle' that's the design borrowed, the 'Constantine' that's the shape's lineage. The 'Jasons' is the kept — the 'honor society' that's the '33 shrine, the 'records stored' that's the '88 use. The Round House is the witnessed — the 'slavery's drums' that's the smarthistory examined, the 'Union spared' that's the inexplicable mercy.","The file keeps the Round House: the enslaved drummers, the spared octagon, the sentry post, and the shrine's reuse.","The Little Round House is the archive's Alabama file — the guard post the Union left standing."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Little Round House is the archive's Alabama file — the enslaved drummers' shelter that survived the burning.","An octagon keeps its contradiction — the file's suggestion being that the Round House's hold is the survived: the 'rented slaves' that's the corps housed, the 'campus burned' that's the exception made, and the 'honor shrine' that's the memory converted."]}],"name":"Little Round House","aliases":["Little Roundhouse","Round House"],"type":"HISTORIC_GUARDHOUSE","type_label":"Historic Guardhouse","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"Historic guardhouse in Tuscaloosa; research record.","full_desc":"Little Round House is a historic guardhouse in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Historic guardhouse in Tuscaloosa; research record. Built in the early 1860s for cadet sentries, it also housed enslaved members of the University Drum Corps. It survived the 1865 campus fire and became an honor-society memorial in 1990. Reported lore and claims include: The guide recounts phantom soldiers seeking whiskey.","address":null,"city":"Tuscaloosa","county":"Tuscaloosa County","state":"Alabama","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":33.2119,"lon":-87.5465,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass. Precise location, historical chronology and current visitor conditions require independent enrichment. Confidence concerns provenance only.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":71.2,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0.85,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":683,"type":"VOICES","description":"The guide recounts phantom soldiers seeking whiskey. The site in Tuscaloosa, Alabama gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The account is disputed — even the folklore has factions. Sources including 'Alabama Hauntings—County by County Part VII' keep the claim in circulation. It's the sort of report that survives precisely because it asks you to listen, not look.","evidence":"DISPUTED","evidence_label":"Disputed","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.5,"conflict_notes":"Guide finds no historical basis for the ambush backstory.","source":{"name":"Alabama Hauntings—County by County Part VII","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vii/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built in the early 1860s for cadet sentries, it also housed enslaved members of the University Drum Corps. It survived the 1865 campus fire and became an honor-society memorial in 1990. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'The Little Round House — Campus Historical Markers'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"The Little Round House — Campus Historical Markers","url":"https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/adhc-omekaS/s/historicalmarkers/item/17","publisher":"University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections","type":"LIBRARY_ARCHIVE","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Alabama Hauntings—County by County Part VII","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vii/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4},{"name":"The Little Round House — Campus Historical Markers","url":"https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/adhc-omekaS/s/historicalmarkers/item/17","publisher":"University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections","type":"LIBRARY_ARCHIVE","authority":1}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}