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TUSKEGEE , a See also:town and See also:county-seat of See also:Macon county, See also:Alabama, U.S.A., in the See also:east See also:part of the See also:state, about 40 M. E. of See also:Montgomery. Pop. (1900) 2170; (1910) 2803. It is served by the Tuskegee railway, which connects it with Chehaw, 5 M. distant, on the Western railway of Alabama. The See also:city manufactures See also:cotton See also:seed. Tuskegee is chiefly known for its educational institutions—the Tuskegee Normal and See also:Industrial See also:Institute and the Alabama See also:Conference See also:Female See also:College (Methodist Episcopal See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:South; opened 1856). The former was founded in 188o by an See also:act of the state legislature as the Tuskegee State Normal School, and was opened in See also:July 1881 by Booker T. See also:Washington for the purpose of giving an industrial See also:education to negroes; in 1893 it was incorporated under its See also:present name. In 1899 the See also:national See also:Congress granted to the school 25,000 acres of See also:mineral lands, of which 20,000 acres, valued at $200,000,were unsold in 1909. See also:Andrew See also:Carnegie gave $600,000 to the institute in 1903, and the institute has a Carnegie library (1902), with about 15,00o volumes in 1909. In 1909 the endowment was about $1,389,600, and the school See also:property was valued at about $1,117,660. It had in 1909 a property of 2345 acres (of which r000 were See also:farm lands, 1145 pasture and See also:wood lands, and 200 school campus), and Too buildings, many of See also:brick, and nearly all designed and constructed, even to the making of the bricks, by the teachers and students. The state of Alabama appropriated $2000 for teachers' salaries in 1880, increased the See also:appropriation to $3000 in 1884, and for many years gave $4500 annually; the school receives $ro,000 annually from the See also:John F. See also:Slater Fund, and the same sum from the See also:General Education See also:Board. The institute comprises an See also:academic See also:department (in which all students are enrolled) with a seven years' course, the See also:Phelps See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall See also:bible training school (1892), with a three years' course, and departments of See also:mechanical See also:industries, industries for girls, and See also:agriculture. The department of agriculture has an experiment station, established by the state in 1896, in which important experiments in cotton breeding have been carried on. There are a farm, a large See also:truck See also:garden, an See also:orchard, and a bakery and See also:canning factory. See also:Forty different industries are taught. Cooking See also:schools and See also:night schools are carried on by the institute in the town of Tuskegee. In 1908-1909 the enrolment was 1494 students, of whom about one-See also:quarter were See also:women, and there were 167 teachers, all negroes. Tuition in the institute is See also:free; board and living cost $8.5o a See also:month; See also:day students are allowed to " See also:work-out " $1.50-$3.00 a month of this amount, and night students may thus pay all their expenses. At Tuskegee under the auspices of the institute are held the See also:annual See also:negro conferences (begun in 1891) and monthly farmers' institutes (begun in 1897); and See also:short courses in agriculture (begun in 1904) are conducted. Farmers' institutes are held throughout the South by teachers of the school. In 1905 the institute took up the work of rural school See also:extension. A See also:model negro See also:village (South See also:Greenwood) has been built See also:west of the institute grounds on See also:land bought by the institute in 1901. Affiliated with the institute and having its headquarters in Tuskegee is the National Negro Business See also:League (1900). The success of the institute is due primarily to its founder and See also:principal, Booker T. Washing-ton, and to the efficient board of trustees, which has included such men as .See also:Robert C. See also:Ogden and See also:Seth See also:Low. Tuskegee was settled about 1800.
See Booker T. Washington, Working With the Hands (New See also:York, 1904) ; and Thrasher, Tuskegee, Its See also:Story and Its Work (See also:Boston, 1900).
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