Porter Hall 1883 / Huntington Academic Building 1905

Historical marker location:

University Avenue, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama

( Marker is on University Avenue west of Tuskegee Airmen Circle, on the right when traveling west.)

The first European settlement in Alabama was established in 1702 by the French at Fort Louis de la Mobile, which is now the city of Mobile. It was named after Louis XIV of France and was the capital of French Louisiana until 1711.