The Williams’ Temple CME Church at Thomasville, AL (consolidated with Booker City to form Miles College)
In 1898, the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, seeking to serve the educational needs of black students opened a school and church in Thomasville, Williams Temple CME Church. Four years later, the CME Church began construction on another facility at Booker City (now called Docena) located near Birmingham. This school was to serve the needs of [...]
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Marion Military Institute at Marion, AL
Marion Military Institute (MMI) traces its origins back to 1842 with the creation of Howard College in Marion, Alabama by the Alabama Baptist Convention. From 1863 to 1865, two buildings on the Howard College campus served the Confederacy as Breckenridge Military Hospital. These were Lovelace Hall (or the Old South Barracks) which was built in [...]
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Snow Hill Institute at Snow Hill, AL
This famous school, founded in 1893 by Dr. William J. Edwards, a graduate of Tuskegee University, opened as the Colored Literary and Industrial School in a one-room log cabin on the R. O. Simpson plantation. Initially there were three students, but with private donations, Dr. Edwards and his supporters increased the school’s property base and [...]
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Oak Grove School near Gallion, Al
The Oak Grove School is a historic two-room Rosenwald School building. It was built to the designs of Samuel Smith from Tuskegee Institute in 1925 to serve the local African American community. The money to build the school was provided by the Julius Rosenwald Fund. The school was open until 1968. It then was used [...]
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Lincoln Normal School’s Phillips Memorial Auditorium at Marion, AL
The Lincoln Normal School was a historic African American school in Marion, Alabama. Lincoln Normal was founded in 1867 by freed slaves as a school for African-American children. In 1870, the school expanded to include teacher training and for a time became known as the Lincoln Normal University for Teachers. The program primarily focused on [...]
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Old Gainestown Schoolhouse at Gainestown, AL (built 1919)
The Gainestown Schoolhouse was built in 1919 as a one-room schoolhouse. The school was expanded to a two-room building in 1930. The building has been restored and is well maintained. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. This little school is located beside CR 29 at Gainestown, AL (GPS [...]
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Judson College at Marion, AL (founded 1838)
Judson College, the nation’s fifth oldest women’s college, was founded in 1838 by members of the Siloam Baptist Church in Marion to educate young women in a Christian environment. The independent, liberal arts college was named for Ann Hasseltine Judson, the first female foreign missionary from the United States. Judson has been affiliated with the [...]
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Moore Academy at Pine Apple, AL
Moore Academy was founded in 1882 by John Trotwood Moore, who was an author, archeologist, and poet. The initial school was a two-story wood frame building. The present brick structure was completed in 1923. Its style is eclectic and typical of early 20th-Century educational facilities with a t-shaped plan, central arched entrance, bracketed eaves, and [...]
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Mesopotamia Female Seminary (1846) at Eutaw, AL
The original site of the Mesopotamia Female Seminary was just west of Eutaw. In 1889 this building was moved to the present location at the intersection of Main & Wilson. It became the core of Eutaw Female College, a reorganization of the old Eutaw Female Academy where in 1859 young ladies studied Latin, French, or [...]
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Old Miller School at Miller, AL (circa 1900)
This school was built around 1900 by Charles H. Miller, Sr. He employed the teachers to provide an education for his children and other children in the community. In 1929, the Marengo County Superintendent of Education consolidated the county schools. The Miller School was closed, forcing students to be bused to Linden or Dixons Mills. [...]
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Prairie Mission (1894-1968)
Prairie Mission, also known as Prairie Institute, was established in 1894 by the Freedmen’s Board of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, to educate children of ex-slaves. The Mission consisted of a church, school building, dormitories for male and female students, a teachers’ house, and a cemetery. The school discontinued operation in the late [...]
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Blacksher Home at Uriah, AL
John Uriah Blacksher was the owner of a large lumber industry in the early 1900′s. He had a big impact on the settling of southwest Alabama and the development of Monroe County. Uriah, Alabama was named for him. The Blacksher home, located in Uriah, was built in 1981 and it is still owned by the [...]
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