Tag: MACON COUNTY

Patron Past Stories

Tuckabatchee and Tallassee were once two rival, thriving towns on the Tallapoosa River

HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF MACON COUNTY By H. M. King Written in 1881 NUMBER XIV Published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 02,…

Patron Past Stories

PATRON – May 23, 1846 – 56 names of Muster Roll from the Macon County, Alabama guards at Tuskegee – War with Mexico

MUSTER ROLL Of the Macon Guards Organized at Tuskegee, Ala., May 23, 1846, for the War With Mexico - From the Weekly Advertiser, Montgomery,…

Patron Past Stories

PATRON – Varner-Alexander House [old photographs] – built by pioneer William Varner still remains in Tuskegee

(Thankfully this beautiful old home has been saved and fully restored.  It is now the residence of Tuskegee University's President.) (continued below) VARNER-ALEXANDER HOUSE ALSO…

Patron Past Stories

PATRON – “Feb. 10, 1881 – Tuskegee Institute was established by the Alabama Legislature”

(Photo African American students in mattress-making class, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala ca. 1902 (Frances Benjamin Johnston, Library of Congress) Tuskegee University was founded in…