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The Cadet House and the Army Supply Building provided much-needed space when training operations expanded in 1942 and 1943. The Cadet House also held a cadet classroom and waiting room, a coat room, and the Flight Surgeon's Office. The Army Supply…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VQB_macon-county-confederate-monument-a-war-memorial_Tuskegee-AL.html
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1861—1865
Erected by the
Daughters of
the Confederacy
to the Confederate
Soldiers of
Macon County.
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Honor the
Brave.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VQA_waiting-for-the-bus-historical_Tuskegee-AL.html
The tarmac between the two hangars was a busy part of Moton Field. Cadets arriving by bus were dropped off here and went to their duties in preparation for flight training. Others boarded the buses to return to the Tuskegee Institute campus. Fuel …
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Macon County was created by the Alabama Legislature on December 18, 1832 and formed out of land formerly belonging to the Creek Indians. The County was named for Nathaniel Macon, a Revolutionary War soldier and long-serving political lead…
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Tuskegee consists of 80 square miles and is the county seat of Macon County, Alabama. Tuskegee rests in the heart of the rural Alabama Black Belt and is 40 miles east of Montgomery. Tuskegee was founded by General Thomas S. Woodward in 18…
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William Bartram, America's first native born artist - naturalist, passed through Macon County during the Revolutionary era, making the first scientific notations of its flora, fauna and inhabitants. As the appointed botanist of Britain's King Geor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B4H_booker-t-washington_Tuskegee-AL.html
On this site stoodthe "shanty" whereBooker T.Washington first opened school,July 4 1881.Later it became"State Normal School", next "Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute",now "Tuskegee Institute".
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B3C_butler-chapel-ame-zion-church_Tuskegee-AL.html
Before the mid-1960s, Tuskegee's black population faced many challenges when attempting to register to vote. Furthermore, the State of Alabama redrew the town's political boundaries in an effort to prevent registered blacks from voting in local el…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ACS_franklins-educational-legacy_Tuskegee-AL.html
(obverse)Franklin School, originally constructed on this lot, was in operation as early as the 1890s teaching grades 1-11. By the mid 1930s, it was downsized to grades 1-6. There were northern and southern classrooms adjoined by a common auditoriu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17Q5_a-typical-day_Tuskegee-AL.html
Try to imagine how Moton Field looked and sounded when the cadets trained here. Compare the scene today to the photograph below, taken from your vantage point around 1944. As the pace of training accelerated during the war, Moton Field became a ve…