One of the best preserved historical military sites here in the United States. The movie in Hanger…read more2 is awesome. When you visit the airfield and its buildings, it feels like you're stepping back in time. I visited on a Saturday and there was only two other families there. Every room I walked into I was the only one in there so I was able to really immerse myself in the settings, sounds, and smells. You can not only go into all the different offices in the hangars, but you can also climb the old control tower. The staff are helpful and friendly. It's free to visit but I would recommend leaving a donation. The site also has a nice little gift shop.

This place will take you back in time. To the time of when it happened and where it was. It is a…read morenice exhibit. You can tell that it needs some upkeep so please donate. Make sure you check out everything and it put you in the mindset of the past and how lucky we are for the future.

Great history and operates site. Park service is well educated and friendly on the offerings…read more Recommendation visiting. Free parking and free admission

I read about these amazing men who volunteered to become pilots during WW2. When I toured Moton…read moreAirfield where the training occurred I was dismayed at the fact that weeds were growing and nothing was being maintained. What was worse is that the facilities were closed on Sunday for this west coaster I was excited to see this, I guess no one visits on the weekends? It was a ghost town, when I walked around...in some ways good for me, in others how sad and pathetic are we that we can run air condition in empty buildings, but not staff it with any park rangers.

As Confederate memorial statues go, this one is in unusually good shape. It's taller than many…read morecourthouse‑square soldiers and the condition is remarkably strong for something erected in 1910, with very little visible aging on either the figure or the plinth. The carving remains crisp, the soldier's posture still clear, and even the inscriptions show only modest weathering for a monument that has stood through more than a century of Alabama summers. The original setting for the Lee County Confederate Memorial was the courthouse lawn, where it stood from its dedication in 1911 until its removal in 2020. It's here on what appears to me to be private property not far from the courthouse, so it will likely stand here for some time. The north face reads, "To Our Confederate Dead and Lee County Veterans," the west face carries a stanza adapted from Theodore O'Hara's Bivouac of the Dead, and the east face offers the Lost Cause‑era reassurance "Defeated, yet without a stain." The monument was erected by the Robert E. Lee Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, part of the same wave of early twentieth‑century memorialization that shaped courthouse squares across the South. The whole monument reads more like a historical artifact than an active civic statement. It's a reminder of how these memorials can change meaning when their surroundings change, and how a shift from public to private land can alter the way a community encounters its own past. [Review 285 of 2026 - 268 in Alabama - 25474 overall]

Walking onto the Tuskegee campus you can feel how layered the history is, and this marker sits…read moreright inside the entrance in front of Robert Moton Hall, tying Julius Rosenwald's philanthropy directly to the institution that helped shape his most influential partnership. The text on the marker is already rich, but knowing the broader story makes it even more compelling. Rosenwald first connected with Booker T. Washington in 1911 after reading Washington's autobiography, and that meeting set off a collaboration that would change education across the rural South. The Rosenwald school program required local communities to raise matching funds, which meant Black families often contributed land, labor, and cash to build schools that their states refused to adequately support. Research has shown that these schools significantly improved literacy, attendance, and long‑term educational outcomes for rural Black children, and by the early 1930s roughly one‑third of African American students in the South were attending a Rosenwald school. The marker reads, "Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) was a Jewish multimillionaire merchant and one of the founders (1906) of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, then the largest department store in the United States. Rosenwald was a member of the Tuskegee University Board of Trustees (1911-1932) and collaborated with Booker T. Washington on the development of a program to provide public education for rural southern Blacks. Known as "Rosenwald Schools," this initiative existed from 1913 to 1948 and resulted in the construction of over 4,977 schools, 217 teachers' homes, and 163 shop buildings in 883 counties in 15 southern states. This fit well with Rosenwald's philosophy to "Give while you live." His benevolence resulted in the development of the Rosenwald Fund, which supported the creation of many black YMCAs, YWCAs, and grants that encouraged many of the 20th century's greatest black artists and innovators. Approximately half of his charitable gifts went to African American communities." The marker stands at the intersection of Moton Drive and Booker T. Washington Boulevard, just past the entrance gate, and is listed as marker number 4 in the series. It was erected in 2019 by the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, City of Tuskegee, and Tuskegee University. [Review 298 of 2026 - 279 in Alabama - 25486 overall]

This marker is in front of the university's public safety building, just across the street from the…read moremain gates. It sits at the literal threshold between the campus that produced generations of Black civic leaders and the city whose political structure those leaders fought to reform. Its excellent condition and high visibility make it a quiet but powerful reminder that the modern civil rights landscape was shaped not only by national figures but by sustained, local, community-driven action. The marker reads, "The Tuskegee Civic Association, whose offices were located here, started out of The Men's Meeting of the 1920s and the Tuskegee Men's Club of the 1930s. On April 13, 1941, in order to increase its effectiveness and to embrace all segments of the population, the club amended its constitution and changed its name to The Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA). The organization focused on civic education, voter registration, political education, community welfare and economic education. Consequently, due to Tuskegee's all white city government's attempt to disenfranchise black voters by gerrymandering the city limits, the TCA decided to initiate a city-wide selective buying campaign (Trade With Your Friends). This prompted an immediate response by State of Alabama officials to begin efforts to suppress it by discouraging and discrediting its members. By the end of July 1957, the state attorney-general (and future governor) John Patterson led multiple raids against the TCA offices. The TCA continued its successful boycott until 1960." It is marker number 5 and it was erected in 2019 by the City of Tuskegee and the Tuskegee University Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation. In 1957, Alabama legislators passed Local Act 140, redrawing Tuskegee's city limits into a bizarre twenty‑eight‑sided shape that excluded all but five Black voters while retaining every white voter. I find this particularly timely as 2026 seems to be a year of gerrymandering and disenfranchisement by both parties at state levels, working to suppress votes of their opponents while highlighting the votes of their supporters. The more things change, the more they stay the same? [Review 466 of 2026 - 290 in Alabama - 25649 overall]

This one was particularly interesting. It stands in front of what is now the public safety building…read morejust across the street from the Tuskegee University entrance. I had to stop here to get a pass to drive and park on the campus and see the chapel. As I walked past the marker, I had to stop and read both sides. Wow, what a great man! The front reads, "Born in 1930 in Montgomery, Gray was among the foremost civil rights attorneys of the 20th century. Forced by segregation to leave Alabama to attend law school, he vowed to return and "destroy everything segregated I could find." Over a six-decade career, his cases desegregated transportation, education. housing, law enforcement, public accommodations, and government. In the U.S. Supreme Court, Browder v. Gayle won the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Gomillion v. Lightfoot ended gerrymandering of Tuskegee and set the stage for "one man, one vote." Lee v. Macon desegregated all Alabama public elementary and secondary schools. Dixon v. Alabama extended the rights of college students. His clients included Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, Vivian Malone, Harold Franklin, Freedom Riders, Selma-to-Montgomery marchers, and Tuskegee Syphilis Study victims. In 1970, he and Thomas Reed were the first African Americans since Reconstruction elected to the Alabama Legislature. In 2002, he was the first African American president of the Alabama Bar Association." On the reverse, "Gray represented the 623 victims of the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which the U.S. Public Health Service experimented from 1932-1972 on the effects of untreated syphilis, using African American men from rural Macon County as unwitting research subjects. Available medical treatment was withheld from the men in the study. In 1975, Gray negotiated a settlement for the victims and their survivors. In 1997, President Bill Clinton apologized on behalf of the nation to survivors in a White House ceremony during which he called Gray "a great friend of freedom" and thanked him "for fighting this long battle all these long years." That same year Gray initiated - in honor of the victims and in memory of Bernice Hill Gray - the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center, a museum dedicated to the history of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and to the roles of the Native, European and African American peoples who have lived in what is now Macon County, Alabama." The marker mentions his representation of Rosa Parks, but not the fact that he had eaten lunch with her earlier on the very day she refused to give up her seat. Nor does it mention that before Parks, he defended 15‑year‑old Claudette Colvin, whose earlier arrest for refusing to move on a Montgomery bus helped lay the groundwork for Browder v. Gayle. Martin Luther King Jr. once described Gray as "the brilliant young Negro who later became the chief counsel for the protest movement," and Gray himself recalled that King would sometimes tell him, half‑jokingly, that if conscience required civil disobedience, Gray should be ready to defend them afterward. Later, in 1985, he served as president of the National Bar Association, and in 2001 he became the first African American president of the Alabama State Bar. In 2022 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, recognizing a lifetime of legal and moral leadership. The marker was erected in 2016 by the Alabama Tourism Department and the Tuskegee History Center. It does not have a number, but it stands in exactly the right place: at the threshold of Tuskegee University, in the city whose political boundaries he helped restore, and in the county where he fought some of his most consequential battles. It's a fitting tribute to a man whose legal work reshaped not just Alabama but the nation. [Review 294 of 2026 - 276 in Alabama - 25483 overall]

I've had a P O. Box in Lanett for A number of years & with the excaption of one time, I've NEVER…read morehad anything less than superb service! They seem to be shorthanded most of the time & those Ladies up front Have it going on!!!!!! They KNOW their stuff & they are sweetest! I feel for them because they are having to practically run 15 jobs at one time & they do it with a smile. Thank you to all Postal Workers, no matter the position, it takes all of you to make the place run & the mail drivers/delivery, hats off to you as well, choosing that profession, knowing you would be working in extreme temperatures! I pray a hedge of protection around your vehicle/mail truck every time you leave out for the day to deliver mail to numerous homes. Thank you ALL!

Such nice people!! I had a package that wasn't delivered and called them. They not only answered…read morethe phone immediately (which they never did in Atlanta where I moved from.) But went to work solved the issue!