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Tuskegee educator Booker T. Washing and Julius Rosenwald, Sears, Roebuck & Company president, initiated one of the most ambitiuous school building programs for African Americans in the United States. The Oak Grove School is one example of the more…
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Merged in 1918 as part ofBirmingham Southern College.
Founded here in 1856by Methodist Church.
Weathered War and Reconstructionto prosper in late 1800's.Moved to Birmingham in 1918on merger with Birmingham College,founded in 1896 by Methodist.
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This parish established 1830.Third oldest in Alabama diocese.
Church consecrated in 1843 byLeonidas Polk, Bishop of Louisiana,(later a Confederate general).
Here Nicholas H. Cobbs was chosenfirst Bishop of Alabama in 1844.
First vestrymen…
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Organized 1823 by Rev. James Hillhouseof South Carolina, withPatrick Norris and William Hillhouse,veterans of American Revolution,as founding elders.
Original wooden structure replacedby brick building in 1841under pastorate ofRev. Thomas Syden…
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Built in 1828 by John Gayle,sixth governor of Alabama.
Birthplace ofAmelia Gayle Gorgas,wife of Gen. Josiah Gorgas,Chief of Ordnance, CSA,mother of Wm. Crawford Gorgas,US Surgeon General who freedCanal Zone of yellow fever.
For many years wa…
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Birthplace, ancestral home ofRichard Pearson Hobson1870-1937Spanish - American War HeroAdmiral Hobson, as naval officer,Statesman, lecturer and author,Urged national preparedness:Championed human welfare causes.Alabama made this home a state shrin…