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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SJO_shiloh-rosenwald-school-shiloh-missionary-baptist-church_Notasulga-AL.html
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Shiloh-Rosenwald School
The Shiloh-Rosenwald School, located in Notasulga, was a collaboration between educator Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald, CEO of Sears. Rosenwald schools are landmarks in the history of African-American…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SJN_birthplace-of-zora-neale-hurston_Notasulga-AL.html
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Celebrated author Zora Neale Hurston was born in Notasulga on January 7, 1891. Her parents, John Hurston and Lucy Potts met here, at the Macedonia Baptist Church. but moved to Eatonville, Florida where Zora grew up. Through extreme dedic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HCM_pioneer-trail-of-methodism_Shorter-AL.html
By this former Indian path
Matthew Parham Sturdivant
came in 1808 as
first official representative
of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
in the territory of
the present State of Alabama,
a missionary from
the South Carolina Conference
to the Tombigbe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H00_shorter-alabama_Shorter-AL.html
Shorter was originally called Cross Keys for the birthplace in South Carolina of an early settler, J.H. Howard. It was later named Shorter for former Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter. The town embodies the memories of the proud Creek Indian Nat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E9K_camp-watts_Notasulga-AL.html
The camp on this site served as a military hospital, a camp of conscription and instruction, a supply depot, and a cemetery during the War Between the States. At one time, there were hundreds of headstones and rocks marking the final resting place…
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/HM1AC0_prairie-farms-resettlement-community_Shorter-AL.html
(obverse)Beginning in the mid-1930s during the Great Depression, the federal New Deal promoted Land Resettlement to move farmers across the nation off worn out soil to new farmland. The Resettlement Administration, and its successor the Farm Secur…
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…