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re: What's the most recognizable landmark on your campus?
Posted on 12/19/12 at 7:47 am to UFownstSECsince1950
Posted on 12/19/12 at 7:47 am to UFownstSECsince1950
On UA's campus you'll see a discolored smokestack building, it's actually kind of an eyesore. But the reason it's there is because it is the only building that survives from before the Civil War, during which the Yankees burned down Alabama's campus.
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Posted on 12/19/12 at 7:51 am to genro
I think they tore the smokestack down :(
Posted on 12/19/12 at 8:19 am to genro
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On UA's campus you'll see a discolored smokestack building, it's actually kind of an eyesore. But the reason it's there is because it is the only building that survives from before the Civil War, during which the Yankees burned down Alabama's campus.
Y'all need more friends in high places.
Grant burned Oxford down and most of the Ole Miss campus, save for the Lyceum, the chapel (now the Croft building) and the observatory at the behest of Chancellor Barnard, who was a personal friend of Grant's.
The observatory is now named after Barnard and isn't actually an observatory anymore.
ETA: And the answer for OM is obviously the Lyceum, seen here behind the Civil Rights monument and James Meredith statue.
This post was edited on 12/19/12 at 8:25 am
Posted on 12/19/12 at 9:21 am to genro
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But the reason it's there is because it is the only building that survives from before the Civil War,
No. Presidents Mansion, Round House, and Gorges House are all pre-civil war building.
I always liked:
Clark Hall
This post was edited on 12/19/12 at 9:23 am
Posted on 12/25/12 at 5:53 pm to genro
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On UA's campus you'll see a discolored smokestack building, it's actually kind of an eyesore. But the reason it's there is because it is the only building that survives from before the Civil War, during which the Yankees burned down Alabama's campus.
Seriously?
The smokestack was not a Civil War relic and it was torn down several years ago. The only buildings on campus that survived the war are: the president's mansion and its slave quarters, the Druid City School of Nursing Building, Maxwell Observatory, and the roundhouse next to the library.
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