Original Site of Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University

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Original site of Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (now located at Normal, Alabama)

Legislature approved 9 December 1873 "a normal school for the education of colored teachers" in Huntsville. Ex-slave William Hooper Councill founder and first president. Classes began May ...

University of Alabama

Endowed by Congress 1819

Ordained by State constitution 1819

And established by

General Assembly 1820

Instruction Begun 1831

Unofficial Training School

Confederate Officers 1861-65

Destroyed by Federal Army

April 4, 1865, Rebuilding Begun 1867

and Reopened 1868.

Marker can be reached from University Boulevard west of 6th Avenue, on the ...

The University of Alabama School of Law

Founded in 1872 as the first law school in Alabama. Henderson M. Somerville was the first professor and later an Alabama Supreme Court Justice. The first dean was William L. Thorington (1897-1908). The school occupied, in turn, parts of Woods, ...

University of Alabama Civil War Memorial

1861 - 1865

The University of Alabama gave to the Confederacy - 7 General Officers, 25 Colonels, 14 Lieutenant - Colonels, 21 Majors, 125 Captains, 273 Staff and other commissioned officers, 66 Non-Commissioned Officers and 294 Private Soldiers. Recognizing obedience to ...

The University of North Alabama

Football Program National NCAA Division II

The University of North Alabama became the first school in the history of NCAA scholarship football to win three consecutive national championships (1993,1994,1995). Under Coach Bobby Wallace, UNA posted a 41~1 record over the same ...

University of Alabama’s Slavery Apology

Buried near this plaque are Jack Rudolph and William “Boysey” Brown, two slaves owned by University of Alabama faculty, and William J. Crawford, a University student who died in 1844.

Rudolph was born in Africa about 1791 and died May 5, ...