The Alabama Legislature passed an act in February 1893 calling for agricultural schools to be built in each of Alabama’s congressional districts. Albertville was chosen as the site for the seventh congressional district school, and a large wooden building was constructed there in 1894. On January 12, 1912, that building was destroyed by fire. Later that year, a new three-story brick Classical Revival style building with a T-shaped floor plan was constructed on the same site. In 1936 the school became the center of the new Albertville High School complex controlled by the Albertville Board of Education. The old school was designated the Hobdy building in honor of early school president J.B. Hobdy. The school has continued to provide secondary education for more than 90 years, and the building was listed in the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1995.