The University of North Alabama first opens…
January 1830 CE
The University of North Alabama first opens its doors as LaGrange College on January 11, 1830, in a mountain hamlet a few miles south of Leighton in northeast Franklin County, Alabama.
LaGrange means "The Place" in French.
Twenty-one local college trustees are listed in Acts of Alabama, Eleventh Annual Session.
This is the first state-chartered institution to begin operation in Alabama.
Other colleges are in operation, but not chartered by the state.