Lux Ferre

The Bullock County Courthouse simply looks like it should be haunted. Its two towers of red brick loom over a collonaded central structure that seems to brood over visitors, daring them to

When Edward and Anna Young arrived in Eufaula in 1837, they came to a town that was in the midst of the cotton boom that swept through the South in the prewar

The Shorter Mansion is a testament to the nostalgia for days gone by, but perhaps not the one you expect. While Shorter appears to the world to be a classic antebellum home,

Another of Eufaula’s odes to days long gone by—to days of king cotton and steamships and of an age when southern Alabama was the wealthiest region in the nation—is the Kendall Manor.

In Barbour County, the cream of southern aristocracy is on display, and one will find the kind of Greek Revival antebellum mansions that some might expect to exist only within the confines

The Alabama legislature established Troy State Normal School on February 26, 1887. Its first president was Joseph Macon Dill. It was renamed Troy State Normal College in 1893. The name was changed

Spring Hill College is Mobile’s oldest Catholic school and the first Catholic college in the Southeast. Michael Porter, Mobile’s first bishop, founded the school in 1830 on a hill. He staffed it

On February 2, 1854, Gov. John Winston and the Alabama legislature established Tuskegee Female College in Tuskegee, Alabama. Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, the first president, shaped the college into a teaching institution. In

Dr. Carl Jesse founded Walker College in 1938. Davis Hall, built in 1941, served as the classroom building for many years. The funds for its construction were provided by a grant from

The Alabama legislature founded Auburn University on February 1, 1856. East Alabama Male College, as it was originally called, was operated by the Methodist Church. Rev. William J. Sasnett served as the