LaGrange College – 1831

LaGrange College is the oldest non-tax supported institution of higher education in Georgia. It was chartered in 1831 as LaGrange Female Academy. The charter has been changed three times as the trustees altered the name to LaGrange Female Institute in ...

LaGrange College

This is the site of

LaGrange College

Chartered in 1830 by act of

the Legislature of Alabama

An Institution of High Order for men

attending chiefly by students

from the southern states.

The college was burned April 28, 1863

by ...

The Lagrange Phalanx

The Fourier System of communal living was attempted here between 1843 and 1848. Approximately thirty families lived by rules established in councils of industry, commerce, justice and education. Their "new social order" was a failure.

Marker is on U.S. 20 ½ ...

LaGrange County Civil War Memorial

LaGrange Co.

To its Defenders

of the Flag.

Marker is on North Detroit Street south of Michigan Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

LaGrange County Spanish American War Memorial

U. S. S. Maine

Destroyed in Havana Harbor

February 15th, 1898

This tablet is cast from material

recovered from the U. S. S. Maine

Marker is on North Detroit Street south of Michigan Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

LaGrange County Honor Rolls - W. W. I, Korea, and Other Service

This four sided structure has four plaques. (The extreme foggy day prevented getting photos showing the names clearly. Could you help by up-loading clear photographs?? Thank You !)

[ Plaque One ]

Roll of Honor

Citizens of LaGrange County

who served our Country ...

LaGrange County W. W. II Honor Rolls

This four sided structure has three plaques. (The extreme foggy day prevented getting photos showing the names clearly. Could you help by up-loading clear photographs?? Thank You !)

[ Plaque One ]

Roll of Honor

Citizens of LaGrange County

who served our Country ...

LaGrange County Organized 1832

Corner Stone

laid with public ceremony.

Aug. 15th A.D. 1878.

County Organized

May 14th A.D. 1832.

Jacob Vandevanter

Edmund Littlefield

Arthur Barrows

First Commissioners.

Joshua T. Hobbs

First Clerk.

County Seat located at Lima

A.D. 1832.

Removed to LaGrange

A.D. 1844.

First Term of Court held

Oct. 22nd A.D. 1832.

Marker is on ...

Commemorating LaGrange Centennial 1836 - 1936

The Centennial Stone was erected in 1936 to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Town of LaGrange on June 13, 1836.

LaGrange County was established by act of the Indiana Legislature in 1832, sixteen years after Indiana ...

LaGrange County American Revolution Memorial

This tablet is dedicated

to the memory of

The Revolutionary Soldiers

buried in LaGrange County

- § - - D. A. R. Crest - - § -

Placed by

LaGrange De Lafayette

Chapter D. A. R.

Marker is on North Detroit Street south ...