 The school, which was to be known as Troy Normal School, was eventually constructed and completed in 1887 in downtown Troy on a four-acre campus.This school, which went on to become Troy University, had a stormy early history and was lucky to have survived in its cramped downtown location.Its survival was assured when the third president of the college, Edward Madison Shackelford, led the movement from downtown to its present site starting in 1924.