Gorgas Library at the University of Alabama, the state's major research university and its first public college. During the founding of the state between 1818-1820, Alabama territory set up a "seminary of learning," located in Tuscaloosa, central Tuscaloosa County, and the university opened in 1831.
University of Alabama
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Photograph by Chip Cooper
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