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 1875 with sixty-one pupils and two teachers; held in rented buildings until moved 1891 to this site - the first school-owned property. Land-grant funds received 1891 for training of Negroes in agriculture and mechanic arts enable school to enlarge and re-locate on present campus north of the city.
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Alabama A&M University former names
1873 - Colored Normal School at Huntsville
1885 - The Huntsville State Colored Normal and Industrial School
1896 - The State Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes
1919 - The state Agricultural and Mechanical Institute for Negroes
1948 - Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College
1969 - University status achieved
Marker is at the intersection of Clinton Avenue SE and Monroe Street SE, on the right when traveling east on Clinton Avenue SE.
Courtesy hmdb.org
