Historical Marker
Old Plateau Cemetery
Historical marker location:
1959 Bay Bridge Cutoff Road, Mobile, Alabama
( Marker is on Bay Bridge Cutoff Road, 0.1 miles north of Chin Street, on the left when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 2010
Africatown Graveyard.
The city of Tuskegee, Alabama is the birthplace of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military pilots. During World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen were trained at the Tuskegee Institute and went on to fly over 1,500 missions in the war.