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LaGrange College

  This is the site of LaGrange College Chartered in 1830 by act of the Legislature of Alabama An Institution of High Order for men attending chiefly by students from the southern states.   The...

 

This is the site of

LaGrange College

Chartered in 1830 by act of

the Legislature of Alabama

An Institution of High Order for men

attending chiefly by students

from the southern states.

 

The college was burned April 28, 1863

by Federal Cavalry Commanded by

Colonel Florence M. Cornyn

under General Grandville Dodge.

 

Presidents

Bishop Robert Paine 1830-1846

Dr. Edward Wadsworth 1846-1852

James W. Hardy 1852-1853

Rev. Smith Moore 3 months 1853

Dr. R. H. Rivers 1854-1855

Rev. Felix Johnson 1855-1858

Col. J. W. Robertson 1858-1862

 

Erected 1950.




Submitted by @LostToHistory

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