CHAPTER V.

THE BEGINNING OF THE WORK AT TUSKEGEE.

Author’s Difficulty in Locating the Town of Tuskegee Before Starting Thither--Description and Some Early History of Tuskegee by Maj. W. W. Screws--Author’s Meeting with Mr. Lewis Adams, Who First Advanced the Idea of a Normal School at Tuskegee--How Mr. Adams Secured the First Appropriation Through Hons. A. L. Brooks and W. F. Foster--The Opening of the Normal School, July 4, 1881--The House in which the School Was Started.