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()42Original Site of Alabama A&M University
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 enabled school to enlarge and re-locate on present campus north of the city.
ALABAMA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 1974
This Alabama Historical Association marker was erected at the original site of Alabama A&M University on the southwest comer of Clinton Avenue and Monroe Street, Huntsville, Alabama. It was sponsored by the Madison County Commission and was dedicated on March 13, 1975. References 12, 20, 25, 60, and 64 reveal various aspects of the university’s rich history.