La Grange College Site

Established on Jan. 11^th of 1830, La Grange was the first college in the State of Alabama, opening as an all-​male school of higher learning.
The college became a military school in the 1850’s and was called ‘The West Point of The South’.
Both Confederate and Union Forces occupied the mountain-​top site and the Federals burnt the two three-​story brick buildings down on April 28, 1863.
There’s only a historical marker and what looks like a stone block from the original foundation at the site. There are several log cabins, a general store, slave kitchen (under construction) and the Bonner cabin, built in 1880.
What is really cool is the Antebellum Cemetery located up a gravel road with graves going back as far as 1820. There are Confederate graves, whole families and veterans of WWI and II interred here.
My friends and I came up here last night for a ghost hunt and I captured two eerie orbs of lights.
Definitely a fun place to go with the family, the General Store wasn’t open when I took my mom there today nor were any of the other buildings but there’s picnic benches and a sweeping panorama of the valley below.