Normal, Alabama is the home of

Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (Alabama A&M) is a public historically black land-grant university in Normal, Huntsville, Alabama. Founded in 1875, it took its present name in 1969. AAMU is a member-school of the Thurgood Marsh ...

(AAMU), the largest

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. The university is situated in

Huntsville, Alabama Huntsville is a city in Madison County, Limestone County, and Morgan County, Alabama, United States. It is the county seat of Madison County. Located in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama, Huntsville is the most populous city in t ...

's northern city limits in Madison County. Normal was established in 1890, when AAMU was then known as State Normal and Industrial School of Huntsville. It was designated a

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. At that time student enrollment was 300 with 11 teachers. That same year, a

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was established there. Normal's ZIP Code is 35762. Students were called "Normalites".

References

AAMU Public Relations Office
Geography of Madison County, Alabama Geography of Huntsville, Alabama Populated places established in 1890 1890 establishments in Alabama {{MadisonCountyAL-geo-stub