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Tus⋅ke⋅gee

  [tuhs-kee-gee]
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a city in E Alabama: location of Tuskegee Institute. 12,716.
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Tus·ke·gee   (tŭs-kē'gē)   
A city of eastern Alabama east of Montgomery. It is the seat of the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881. Population: 11,500.
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Tuskegee

city, seat of Macon county, east-central Alabama, U.S., adjacent to Tuskegee National Forest, about 40 miles (65 km) east of Montgomery. It was founded in 1833, and its name was a variation of Taskigi, a nearby Creek Indian village. Fort Decatur (built 1814), near the city on the Tallapoosa River, was the original burial place of John Sevier, a noted frontiersman who had been appointed commissioner to determine the boundary of the Creek lands

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