Academy of Baldwin County
aka Baldwin County Academy
Milledgeville, established 1811.
Was located on southwest corner of penitentiary square in 1834. Trustees,
teachers, etc. 1811:Joel Crawford, Augustine Harris, Hubert Reynolds,
Dr. Thompson Bird. 1822: James Camak, Marlow L. Pryor, John Williams,
Williams Rutherford, and Joel Crawford, Esqs.
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Antioch School
Was located on old Monticello
Rd. 319th Dist,. African-American, was next to Antioch Church. Geneva
B. Cullins was teacher here 1903-1904. Annie Washington was teacher here
in 1919. |
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Baldwin
Primary School
Hwy 22 West, established 1922.
Combination of Proctor. Watson & Pleasant Grove Schools. |
Bass School
Rocky Creek, NE White. All
grades. 1903-1904 teacher Beatrice Johnson
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Black Creek School
Hwy. 112, near Wilkinson Line,
Trilby Community. African American. All grades. school next to Black Creek
Church. Gussie M. Hall was teacher here 1903-1904, Lucy Stevens teacher
here in 1919. |
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Black Spring Academy
Black Springs, Sparta Hwy., was
next to Church. Established 1860. All grades. 1860 Trustees:James M. Hall,
Francis T. Miner, Eliphilet Chandler, Joseph Leonard, Brinkley Babb, Ezekiel
Trice, John Speight, William A. Robinson and James M. Gumm. 1908 Map. Mrs.
M. E. Butts teacher here in 1895. Alice M. Vaughn was teacher here
1903-1904. Was to be consolidated with Harmony School, Union Point
School, and Montpelier in 1921 |
Fannie Bonner School
Brown's Crossing, 1890's.
White. School was conducted in Fannie Bonner's home, terms 3-6 mos
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Browns/Browns Grove
African American, 319th Dist,
Ella L. Shivers teacher here 1903-1904. Louvenia Dennis was teacher here
in 1919.
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Buck Creek School
S.E. Baldwin, 115 Dist. after
1865. All grades African-American. Anna Smith was teacher here 1903-1904,
Eugenia Humphries was teacher here in 1919.
Bucks School
Salem District, White, Mrs.
M. E. Fowler was teacher here in 1895.
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Butts Crossroads School
318th Dist. White. Fannie
L. Wooten was teacher here in 1900.
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Camp Creek School
S W Baldwin. All grades. Was next
to Camp Creek Church, 1908 County Map. Leone Gumm was teacher here 1903-1904.
1 teacher school in 1921 |
Capitol School
Milledgeville 1873. All grades.
J H. Allen teacher
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Central Georgia College
Milledgeville. African-American,
Baptist supported
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Chalmers Female Institute/College
Scottsboro 1849. Private institute.
Trustees 1849: Rev. Washington Baird, E. Monroe Wright.
Rev. Washington Baird Teacher;
Mrs. Wright Assisting. Advertisement Principals in 1850 Rev. Washington
Baird, Prof. I. N. Loomis. Incorporated 1854. 1854: Washington Baird,
Principal, and Seaton Grantland, Farish Carter, A. H. Hansell, J. T. Tucker,
H. V. Johnson, Tomlinson Fort, S. K. Talmage, J. W. Baker, M. Grieve, I.
L. Harris, D. R. Tucker, and James C. Whitaker
Clinton Road School
Mrs. F.M. Beal teacher here
in 1895.
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Coopers/Cooperville
School
Gordon Road. Cooperville., S.
W. All grades. Ikie C. Hudson teacher here in 1895. George M. Wheeler was
the prinicipal in 1913. Coopers Memoirs; 1908 County Map.
C. Bobbie Gause was teacher here 1903-1904. 4 teachers in 1921
Cooperville Junior High
Established 1922. Professor J.
A. Maddox, principal, Eula Bell Simpson, Assistant Principal, Mrs. J. R.
Watkins & Miss Mary Vaughn, teachers.
Cooperville High School
Professor Grover Bloodworth
was the prinicipal in 1916
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Corinth Academy
West Baldwin. Old Monticello Rd.
Inc. 1826. All grades. Trustees 1826-Edmund Brantley, Josiah Matthews,
Henry Densler, Benjamin Doles
James C. Watson, 1837-Wm.
D. Scoggins, L. J. Smith, Thomas Raines, James Talbot, James Jolley |
County Line School
Hwy 49 SW. Dist. 322. African-American,
was located nex to church. Isabelle Lites was teacher here 1903-1904.
Isabelle Reeves was teacher here in 1919.
Dovedale School
318 District. White
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The Eddy School
was behind Flagg Chapel
church, W. Franklin St. 1882-1947, opened by Freedman's Bureau. All
grades
Mrs. Mary Rice Phelps was
assistant principal 1890-1891. Sallie Ellis Davis was a teacher and a principal
here for 50 years. The first building burned in 1925, 2nd buildingin
1946. Sallie Ellis Davis Elementary School was named after her. 1919 teachers:
Sallie Davis, Lillie Bivins, Laura Hickle,. Nettie James, Annie Steels,
Gertrude Hitchcock |
Eddy High School
Second story added in 1914.
Atlanta Consititution 10-16-1914
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Ennis School
Hwy. 49/near Brown's Crossing
Rd. All grades. Miss Rebecca F. Bearden teacher in 1895. Miss
Ikie C. Hudson was teacher here 1903-1904. Coopers Memoirs. 1908
County Map
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Fishing Creek School
African American, off Lawrence
Road, west Baldwin. after 1865. All grades. Fishing Creek Church is at
current location. Sarah E. Williams was teacher here 1903-1904, Lucetta
Perdue teacher here in 1919. |
Freedman's High School
Midway c. 1869. Opened by
Freedman's Bureau
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Friendship
African American, East Baldwin.
115th district. Teacher here 1904-1904 Joe Bloodworth ; in 1919 was
Amanda Thornton.
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Georgia Normal and Industrial
College now
Georgia
College & State University
Milledgeville 1891.
On site of old pententiary. Created by act of the General Assembly
Greenwood School
318th district. White. Miss
Lucille M. Bullard teacher in 1903-1904.
Gum Creek School
115th district. White. Miss
Mamie Renfoe teacher in 1903-1904.
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Hall's School
321st district. White. Miss
Mamie Holloway teacher in 1895.
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Harmony School
East Baldwin, Salem district,
Annie E. Woods teacher here in 1895. Was to be consolidated with Black
Springs, Union Point and, Montpelier in 1921
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Harper's Mission School
Hwy 212. 318th Dist. All grades.
African-American. 1908 County Map. Jordan Lawrence was teacher here 1903-1904.
Lucille Napier was teacher here in 1919
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Harrisburg School
Harrisburg Community. 1871-1952.
All grades. African-American. Mollie A. Bruce was teacher here 1903-1904.
Mary West and Viola Lee were teachers here in 1919. |
The Hermitage
Female Academy/Seminary
Scottsboro 1832. Private female
academy. Washington Baird, Principal, Catherine Fitzgerald advertised this
school in 1835.
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Hopewell School
Hopewell Community 4 miles west
of Milledgeville. All grades. Annie Ray teacher here 1903-1904. The teacher
Miss Cook and 25 students were in the building when a tornado hit &
destroyed the building - no serious injuries in 1913. Atlanta Constitution
2/28/1913. |
Humphries School
possibly West Baldwin. All
grades, was open in 1921
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Jordans Crossroads School
African American, 318th
Dist, Geneba B. Cullins was teacher here in 1900.
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June Hill School
near Town Creek, Hwy. 24 East.
After 1865. African-American GNIS
Map
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Leonicera/Lonicera Academy
Established 1826. Midway.
All grades. Trustees: James Lamar, William W. Carnes, Benjamin H. Reynolds,
James Bonner, John A. Jones. Act
Lonicera is Latin for Honeysuckle
Maryville Academy
East Baldwin, 115th Dist.
Annie Gibson was teacher here 1903-1904.
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Matilda Chapel
Stevens Pottery, consolidated
with Cooperville in G. C. Byington was teacher here in 1895. |
Meriwether Institute
Meriwether Community. 1890
high school. Professor McSwain, principal. Near Buck Creek
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Meriwether School
Meriwether Community,iss Mamie
Harper teacher here in 1895..
Meriwether Junior High
Meriwether Community. NW Baldwin
County. 1922 - Miss Mamie Jones, principal, Miss Mattie Mae Torrance and
Annie Clyde Veal, assistants |
Midway Elementary
Midway. White. all grades.
Mrs. M. D. Sherwood teacher in 1895. Helen Skinner teacher here 1903-1904
See
1956 Photo
Midway Junior High
Midway. White. Established 1922.
Professor J. F. McCluney, principal; Mrs. J. D. Willis, assistant principal,
Miss Leola Newton & Miss Bessie Adams, assistants. See
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Midway High School
From Georgia Weekly Telegraph
2-7-1871. At Old Oglethorpe University. In 1871 Prof. R. C. Smith, Principal,
Rev. C. W. Lane, Lecturer on Natural Sciences, W. D. Seymour, Instructor
in Mathematics. Two terms 5 months each. Primary Class $20 term, Middle
class, $25 term, Highest, $30 term. Boarding in good families can be had
for $15. mo. Designed for boys and young men, girls and young ladies would
not be refused admission. Wm. McKinley, Pres. Board of Trustees |
Middle
Georgia Militiary and Agricultural College
now
Georgia Military College
Milledgeville. Open Jan 1880.
Began as coed college. Located in state capital building. Created by act
of the General Assembly. Started with 219 male and female students. Faculty:
Dr. W. S. Dudley, president, Professor O. M. Stone, V. P. and James E.
Witherspoon. Military department - O. T. Xeiman, Esq. commandant. Female
teachers 1880: Carrie Fair, Mary Herty, Birdie Little, Allece Wright, Rosa
Stallings. Macon Telegraph and Messenger 7-15-1880. Professor J
C Hinton , fall of 1880.
Old
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Milledgeville Business
College
Opened in the new Ohlman building
in 1905 by J. H. Dickinson and J. T. Stevens of Tennille. Taught telegraphy,
railroad accounting and typewriting.
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Midway
Female Seminary
Midway c. 1837. female boarding
school. Trustees:Col. J.S. Thomas, Col. D.C. Campbell; A. M. Nisbet, Esq.;
D. Tucker, Esq..
A.M. Nisbet, Esq.; Harper
Tucker, Esq. John B. Mallard, Principal and Addie Green , Teacher (1848) |
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Midway Male and Female
Academy
1833 Trustees: Richard J. Nichols,
Thomas Ragland ,Thomas Foard, William J. Davis, Benjamin H. Reynolds |
Midway Seminary
Established 1835 . Male boarding
school. Trustees:Charles W. Howard, Samuel Rockwell, Baradel Stubbs, John
A. Cuthbert
Dr. C.P.Beman, Mr. Ramsey
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Milledgeville Academy
Was on state house square on Wayne
St. present site of Presbyterian Church. Milledgeville See
1830 map
c. 1818 Samuel Boykin, Robert
Rutherford, town commissioners in 1819. Chilly McIntosh, son of Lower
Creek Chief William McIntosh was a student here in 1819 |
Milledgeville School
African-American. Baptist
supported
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Mitchell Zion
African American, southwest
in county, 1919 teacher - Alfred Kyle
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Montpelier School
1 mile from Montpelier Church,
Sparta Hwy.22E 1908 County Map
Harmony School, Union
Point School, and Black Springs in 1921
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Morgans Chapel
African American, Carrie Burns
was teacher here in 1919.
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Morans School
White, 105th District,
Mamie Torrance was teacher here in 1903-1904.
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Moselyville School
Hwy 112/Vinson Hwy. All grades.
Agnes Stembridge teacher here 1903-1905.
Nellie G. Underwood teacher
in 1895. 1908 County Map
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Mount Hope School
African American, 321st Dist.
Mellie A. Bruce was teacher here 1903-1904.
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Mt. Mariah
African American, Geneva Lewis
was teacher here in 1919.
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Mt. Pleasant School
SW Baldwin, Mt. Pleasant area
White. All grades. Miss Kate Wheeler teacher in 1895. Bertha Gilman teacher
here 1903-1904
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Nazarene
319th district, African American,
Fannie C. Brown teacher there 1903-1904. Mary Giles was teacher here in
1919.
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Neriah School
Hwy. 212/Neriah Rd. after 1865.
All grades. African-American, County Line Primitive Baptist Church
is located there now. |
New Mt. Sion/Zion
African American, Susie Quarker
was teacher here in 1919.
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Oglethorpe University
Midway. 1835. Trustees: Thomas
Goulding, S. S. Davis, S. J. Cassels, S. K. Talmadge, J. C. Patterson,
H. S. Pratt, Robert Quarterman, Charles W. Howard, C. C. Jones, Joseph
H. Lumpkin, Washington Poe, Eugenius A. Nesbit, William W. Holt, B. E.
Hand, Richard K. Hines, Samuel Rockwell, John A. Cuthbert, Tomlinson Fort,
J. Billups, Charles C. Mills, Charles P. Gordon, John H. Howard, Thomas
B. King and Adam L. Alexander Act |
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Peabody Model School
Milledgeville. 1891. Grammar.
High school added later. George
Peabody Bio. Was part of GNIC/GCSU. teaching school. |
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Philadelphia Academy
West Baldwin. 1836. All grades.
Trustees: Benjamin Lester, John S. Stephens, James McCrary, Shadrach Bivins
and William Lewis Act |
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Pine Grove School
SW Baldwin on Kitchens Rd. before
1882. All grades. W. P. Williams was teacher here in 1882 per 8/10/1882
Macon
Telegraph and Messenger . Mattie Lewis 1920 teacher. W.M. Kitchens
Jr was truck driver for this school according to 1930 Fed. Census |
Pleasant
Grove Academy/School
Lawrence Rd., off Hwy 22, West.
School was located across the road from church at intersection.
1860 - 1921. All grades. Trustees:
David P. Brown, Oliver P. Bonner, Thomas Morris, Thomas Horne, and Oscar
V. Brown
Church & School incorporated
together. Mable Hodges teacher here in 1895.
Act Map |
Proctor's School
319th district. White. Miss
Maggie Humphreys teacher in 1903-1904.
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Hattie Pottle's School
Brown's Crossing. house owned
by P.W. Williams. 1898 - 1900, White. All grades. Union-Recorder
Nov. 26, 1925 |
Private/Select Schools
| Mary Franklin, opened Dec.
27, 1808. Reading, Writing, Needle-work. $3.00 tutition per quarter. School
in house of Mr. Sandford's near office of the Georgia Journal. |
| C. Rankin, Select School opened
August 1810, room adjoining Georgia Journal Printing Office. Limited
to 20 students. Latin & Greek languages, Rhetoric, Logic, Moral Philosophy,
Mathematics. |
| Military School opened
May 1815 at the Camp-ground above Milledgeville. Capts John Wood, Thomas
S. Wooward |
| William Green, formerly of
the University of Georgia opened an academy in 1816 in Milledgeville. His
wife opened a girl's school at the same time. |
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Proctor
School
aka Clinton Road School
Brown's Crossing school district.
1897. White. All grades. Union-Recorder Nov. 26, 1925 |
Roberts Academy
W. Henry Roberts, Milledgeville,
1870.
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Rock Mills School
African American, 318th Dist.
North Baldwin, Pearl G. Adams was teacher here 1903-1904, Clara Hood
was teacher here in 1919. |
Saint Mary
African American, northwest
Baldwin, Lucella Flagg was teacher here in 1919.
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Saint Paul School
African American, 318th Dist.
northwest Baldwin, Emma Price was teacher here 1903-1904. Eula Roberts
was teacher here in 1919.
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Sandtown
African American, East Baldwin.
Rebecca P. Smith was teacher here 1903-1904. Mabel Liner was teacher here
in 1919.
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Scottsboro
White, Cura Ennis waa teacher
here in 1895.
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Scottsboro
African American, Mary A.
Randall was teacher here 1903-1904. Mattie Veal was Teacher here in 1919
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Scottsboro Female Institute
aka
Scottsboro
Female Academy
Scottsboro 1828. Trustee: Farish
Carter. Bought by Lucien & Victor LeTaste. Dr. Robert C. Brown, Rector |
Scottsboro Male Academy
1831. Trustees: Lucius Q. C. Lamar,
Farish Carter, Seaton Grantland, James Bozeman. Green Jordan, Samuel Rockwell
Thomas W. Baxter. ActMap
of Scottsboro |
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Snead School
NW 14 miles from Milledgeville
near intest. of Stiles Rd. & Stiles Cemetery Rd. All grades.
White. Mary E. Snead teacher here in 1880. Etta Stiles was the teacher
in 1920 with a total of 10 students. Augusta Chronicle 9-12-1920.
1908 County Map |
Spring Hill School
Lake Laurel Rd. after
1865. All grades. African American. 1908 county map. Georgia Malcolm was
teacher here 1903-1904. Evangeline Butts was teacher here in 1919.
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State Farm School
at State Prison Farm on Hwy 22.
Established 1903 and was here until wind storm torn the bldg down in early
1920's, then children went to GMC. 1 room bldg also used for church. Teachers:
Alice M. Wright 1903-1904, Eva Arnold, Berta Williamson, Florence
Stembridge, Anna Bell Webster Dumas, Mary Lucy Hargrove. For children of
workers, was open in 1921
Stembridge School
Salem District, White. Miss Hattie
Vinson teacher here in 1895, |
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Stevens Pottery School
Stevens Pottery, Coopers Memoirs.
Laura Glenn was a teacher here in 1880. She lived with her brother John
Glenn, sister-in-law Fanny Stevens Glenn, niece Matilda Glenn. Students
boarding with them were Huldy A. Allen and Fannie Davis. Fannie D. Williams
teacher here in 1895. Mr J. T. Stephenson was teacher here 1903-1904. |
Stevens Pottery School
African American, Marlow D.
Ferrell was teacher here 1903-1905.
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Talmadge High School
Midway 1866. former location
of Oglethorpe University
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Torrance Chapel School
Pancras Rd, SW, near Coopers.
after 1866, all grades, African-American.
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Town Creek School
Afrocan-American, East Baldwin,
Vivian Andrews was teacher here in 1919.
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Trilby School
White, Hwy. 112, near Little
Black Creek. All grades. 1908 County Map. Franes M. Beals teacher
here 1903-1904.
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Union School
African American. 115th
dis. Lillie Vinson was teacher here 1903-1904. J. B. Lawrence teacher here
in 1919.
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Union Hill School
Union Hill Church Rd. southwest
Baldwin Co. All grades, white, was next to Union Hill Church. Mr J. T.
Dupree was teacher here 1903-1904. Bethel Beck teacher in 1920 |
Union
Point School
Intersection of Hwy 24 and
Deepstep Rd. 1908 County Map. Cassie Simpson was teacher here 1903-1904.
Union Point Junior High
Established 1922. Professor N.
S. Timmons, principal; Miss Bertha Hold, assistant principal; Mrs W. E.
Hodges & Mrs. Florence Crocker, assistants |
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Unknown
House of John Bozeman. 1819. Ga.
Journal 19 Jan 1819. R.B Washington..Will open an English School.
25 Jan. in the house of John Bozeman....his dau. Elizabeth Snead will take
charge of the Female ept...first quarter's tuition, $7..in advance. |
Unknown
Henry Dension was a
teacher.
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Vaughns Chapel
African American, Mamie L.
Parks was teacher here 1903-1904, Marlow Smothers in 1919.
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Vinson
Grove School
Cobb Bridge Road.Deed in the Baldwin
County Deed Book Y p271 1899, that John William Vinson grants 1 acre
in 322nd District adjacent to R.T. Adams on Cobb Bridge Road. Information
from Laura Northrop |
Walkers Chapel School
African American, 115th dist.
Alice C. Oglesby was teacher here 1903-1905,
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Walkers Grove School
African American, 319th dist.
Carrie C. Willis was teacher here 1903-1905, Alice Hutchens was teacher
here in 1919.
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Watson
School
West Baldwin. 1908 White.
All grades. Was open in 1921
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Wright's Grove
African American, 321st Dist.
Julia A. Logan was teacher here 1903-1904.Alice Speight and Edna Singleton
were teachers here in 1919.. |
