Lauderdale College
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Lauderdale College was a school founded by W. L. Lauderdale through his Great Southern Home Industrial Association. It occupied a cluster of buildings near the corner of 27th Court and 34th Place North in the North Birmingham neighborhood which came to be called Collegeville.
In 1905 the school hosted the inaugural meeting of the Collegeville Citizens' Conference, modeled after a similar program at Tuskegee. Then-principal Elisha Jones was made president of the Conference's board of directors.
The school burned in 1916.
References
- "Negro Conference Organized at North Birmingham" (April 8, 1905) The Birmingham News, p. 23