Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site — Attraction in Tuskegee

I am a travel writer for National Park Planner and I visited Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site in July 2014. Located in Tuskegee, Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site is the only National Park dedicated to a college campus. Created in 1881 by the Alabama State Legislature as the Normal School for Colored Teachers at Tuskegee, the school that started out in a small building on the grounds of a church soon grew into one of the premier Historically Black Colleges in the United States. The school is now called Tuskegee University, the name changing from Tuskegee Institute in 1985.

The National Park Service operates just two facilities in the park, the George Washington Carver Museum and Booker T. Washington’s home, The Oaks. The museum also serves as the park’s Visitor Center. Washington, the black community’s leading spokesman and one of its top educators, was hired to run the school from the start by founders Lewis Adams and George Campbell. He brought promising botanist George Washington Carver to the school in 1896. Carver would go on to acclaim as a chemurgist, one who creates usable industrial products from plants, and is most famous for his work with peanuts, inventing hundreds of products from this legume.

Visitors to the park are also welcome to walk around the campus to see a number of the original buildings still in existence. These building are not open to the public, but information signs at the front of each one gives a short history of the buildings.

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Tuskegee University in Tuskegee,Alabama founded by Lewis Adams and Booker T. Washington on July 4,1881. The ONLY school of higher learning in the country that is a total federally protected historic site. This beautiful campus is home to the nation's winningest HBCU football program and the home of the Marching Crimson Pipers band-the oldest HBCU band in the country. Tuskegee University is also home to the only School of Veterinary on a HBCU campus. It has the oldest School of Nursing in the state of Alabama. The campus is comprised of 5500 acres of beautifully maintained rolling hills and trees. If you are looking for a great historical location please visit. While there take in the tour of the Oaks,Booker T. Washington's home and George Washington Carver's lab.Not far from campus you can visit the museum of the famed Tuskegee Airmen whom during World War II never lost a bomber doing escort missions. So again please give...

I visited the TINHS on my birthday and - WHAT a breathtaking experience! The historical site is literally on the historical site, and the original buildings that are still standing are refurbished as living museums complete with guided audio overhead that incorporates sounds you may have heard in each room, as well as testimonials of both employees and pilots at this airbase. Next door is an active airstrip that trains school-age young adults who are training to be pilots, complete with a scholarship to help these future pilots along. What a wonderful legacy to continue. The airbase isn't as interactive as I would have liked, because there are a few interactive activities offered and it seems like they could incorporate more, but that is a small suggestion. Otherwise, it is a wonderful historical site that is both educational, stimulating and, again, does a great job putting you in...