The wreck of the "Second 180" and "Extra 452" in the Wiregrass led to changes in train management.
On Sept. 24, 1945, at 2:05 p.m., Atlantic Coast Line train “Extra 452 West” from Dothan collided headlong into ACL “Second 180 East,” killing the 452’s engineer, James A. Mangum of Montgomery, and injuring 16 others.
Tom Solomon, a resident of Headland, employee of the ACL, and “well known railroad artist and train enthusiast” owned…
The traveling exhibit will be on display in the Troy Campus Library from March 20 to April 24.
Troy University’s Troy Campus Library is one of 50 U.S. libraries selected to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum that examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.
The touring library exhibition —…
Students can now enjoy a variety of graphic novels in the Troy Campus Library.
The campus library offers MANGA and other graphic novels as the latest form of media for students to check out.
On the second level of Wallace Hall, students can head to the back of the library and discover shelves of colorful volumes of their favorite manga and comics. The collection caters to several different readers.
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Olga Casey, a librarian on the Dothan Campus who is Ukrainian, accepts gifts from CUSPU students in 2014. (Wiregrass Archives)
Ukraine has been in the news for the past year over its hot war with its neighbor, the Russian Federation.
What you might not know is that the Troy Dothan Library has had a “Sister Library” partnership with the Central Ukrainian State University Library. Beginning in 2009, Troy Dothan librarian Olga Casey (a native of Ukraine…
