William Sherrod McCall Sites

A Section of Fine Arts mural entitled "Early Settlers Weighing Cotton" was painted in 1938 by William S. McCall. The work is installed in the historic post office in Montevallo, Alabama. "McCall, at the time from Jacksonville, Florida, received the invitation to do the Montevallo mural in 1938 on the basis of designs he had submitted for a competition in Miami. He immediately visited Montevallo and chose the theme of cotton and settlement of the region because,in his words, "Montevallo was a very important little town to the cotton industry of the State in the early days." The postmaster, in the...