Aker
Aker : One of the early lion gods in Egyptian mythology, Aker, the god of land, is represented by two lions seated back to back…
Aker : One of the early lion gods in Egyptian mythology, Aker, the god of land, is represented by two lions seated back to back…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…