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…
Author: Lux Ferre
Bullock County Courthouse – Union Springs
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…
Fendall Hall – Eufaula
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 – Eufaula
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…
Kendall Manor – Eufala
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…
The Cato-Thorn House – Barbour County
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…
Troy University – Troy
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 – Mobile
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…
Huntingdon College – Montgomery
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…
Bevill State Community College – Jasper
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…
