On December 17, 1819, only three days after the state of Alabama was admitted to the United States of America, an Act of the General Assembly of Alabama approved an Act to incorporate "a seminary of learning" to be known as the University of Alabama. (continued below) Landon Garland, President of the University of Alabama, […]
The population in the new Alabama Territory increased so rapidly between 1817 and 1818, that by the time the second session of the territorial legislature met at St. Stephens in November 1818, transition to statehood was expected very soon. When the legislature met, a petition to Congress was drawn up and sent by John W. […]
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