Near Snow Hill in Wilcox County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)
Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute
1893
Snow Hill Institute was founded in 1893 by William James Edwards, a graduate of historic Tuskegee Institute established by Booker T. Washington in 1881.
Snow Hill’s lineage extends back to Hampton Institute where Washington and many of Snow Hill’s faculty graduated.
The founding of Snow Hill Institute was greatly facilitated by the planter R. O. Simpson who gave Snow Hill Institute its first 100 acres of land in increments of seven (7), thirty-three (33), and sixty (60) acres. He also became the first chairman of the school’s Board of Trustees.
Edwards was Snow Hill Institute’s Principal from 1893 until 1925 when he resigned because of ill health. This period is generally considered Snow Hill Institute’s Golden Age when it stood in the forefront of the movement to improve rural education for African Americans in Alabama’s Black Belt.
Snow Hill Institute was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior on February 24, 1995.
Erected by Snow Hill Institute Board of Trustees.
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Education. In addition, it is included in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities series list. A significant historical month for this entry is February 1809.
Location. 32° 1.232′ N, 87° 1.949′ W. Marker is near Snow Hill, Alabama, in Wilcox County. Marker is on Snow Hill Institute Road, 0.3 miles north of County Road 26, on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Pine Apple AL 36768, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 16 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Furman National Historic District (approx. 4.3 miles away); Town of Oak Hill (approx. 7.4 miles away); Pine Apple Historic District (approx. 10.3 miles away); Downtown Pine Apple (approx. 10.4 miles away); Moore Academy (approx. 10.9 miles away); a different marker also named Pine Apple Historic District (approx. 11.4 miles away); Mount Carmel Church (approx. 12.4 miles away); The Butler Massacre / Fort Bibb (approx. 15.4 miles away).
Also see . . . Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute. Wikipedia (Submitted on August 28, 2013, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.)
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