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By Lee Hattabaugh, January 15, 2011
William Hooper Councill Marker
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| On Meridian Street at Parker Drive NW, on the right when traveling north on Meridian Street. |
| | "...A tower of knowledge, of strength, of power ...Let us build..." Dr. William Hooper Councill served as President of Alabama A&M University and was the catalyst for its early development from its founding in 1875 until his death in 1909. . . . — — Map (db m39763) HM |
| On St. Clair Avenue, 0.1 miles east of Monroe Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | The first public school for African-Americans in the city of Huntsville was named for the founder of the Alabama A&M University. The site, selected by a committee headed by the Rev. W.E. Gaston, was donated by the Davis-Lowe family. Founded in 1867 . . . — — Map (db m36065) HM |
| On Meridian Street, 0.2 miles north of Chase Road NE, on the left when traveling north. |
| | In 1919, the first building was erected nearby with funds provided locally and supplemented with a Julius Rosenwald Foundation grant. Named for William H. Councill, Alabama A&M University founder, the three-room structure was built for black . . . — — Map (db m39761) HM |
| On Clinton Avenue SE at Monroe Street SE, on the right when traveling east on Clinton Avenue SE. |
| | Legislature approved 9 December 1873 "a normal school for the education of colored teachers" in Huntsville. Ex-slave William Hooper Councill founder and first president. Classes began May 1875 with sixty-one pupils and two teachers; held in rented . . . — — Map (db m85546) HM |
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