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.
Acts |
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Antioch School
Was located on old Monticello
Rd. Built after 1865, all grades. African-American, was next to Antioch
Church |
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Baldwin
Primary School
Hwy 22 West, established 1922.
Combination of Proctor. Watson & Pleasant Grove Schools. |
Bass School
Rocky Creek, NE All grades
GNIS
Map
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Black Creek School
Hwy. 112, near Wilkinson Line,
Trilby Community. All grades. school next to Black Creek Church, prob.
African-American |
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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. Was
to be consolidated with Harmony School, Union Point School,
and Montpelier in 1921 |
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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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Buck Creek School
S.E. Baldwin, 115 Dist. after
1865. All grades African-American |
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Camp Creek School
S W Baldwin. All grades. Was next
to Camp Creek Church, 1908 County Map. 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 |
Cooperville
School
Gordon Road. Cooperville., S.
W. All grades. George M. Wheeler was the prinicipal in 1913. Coopers
Memoirs; 1908 County Map. 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. |
Corinth Academy
West Baldwin. 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 |
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County Line School
Hwy 49 SW. after 1865. All grades.
African-American, was located nex to church |
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 |
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Eddy High School
Second story added in 1914. Atlanta
Consititution 10-16-1914 |
Ennis School
Hwy. 49/near Brown's Crossing
Rd. All grades. Coopers Memoirs. 1908 County Map
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Fishing Creek School
off Lawrence Road, west Baldwin.
after 1865. All grades. Fishing Creek Church is at current location, GNIS
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Freedman's High School
Midway c. 1869. Opened by
Freedman's Bureau
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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 |
Harmony School
East Baldwin, was to be consolidated
with Black Springs, Union Point and, Montpelier in 1921
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Harper's Mission School
Hwy 212. after 1865. All grades.
African-American. 1908 County Map
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Harrisburg School
Harrisburg Community. 1871-1952.
All grades. African-American |
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. 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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June Hill School
near Town Creek, Hwy. 24 East.
After 1865. African-American GNIS
Map
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Leonicera/Lonicera Academy
Established 1826. Location unknown.
All grades. Trustees: James Lamar, William W. Carnes, Benjamin H. Reynolds,
James Bonner, John A. Jones. Act
Lonicera is Latin for Honeysuckle |
Meriwether Institute
Meriwether Community. 1890
high school. Professor McSwain, principal
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Meriwether School
Meriwether Community, was
open in 1921.
Meriwether Junior High
Meriwether Community. NW Baldwiin
County 1922. Miss Mamie Jones, principal, Miss Mattie Mae Torrance and
Annie Clyde Veal, assistants |
Midway Elementary
Midway. White. all grades.
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
1956 Photo |
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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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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
teachers. |
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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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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Moran School
White, Salem District,
1908
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Moselyville School
Hwy 112/Vinson Hwy. All grades.
1908 County Map
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Mt. Pleasant School
SW Baldwin, Mt. Pleasant area
White. All grades. Coopers Memoirs
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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. Map |
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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. Act Map |
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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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Salem School
Salem Church community SW. 2 teachers.
All grades. 2 teachers in 1920 - Miss Smith and Miss Annie Humphries |
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
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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 Wright, Eva Arnold, Berta Williamson, Florence Stembridge, Anna Bell
Webster Dumas, Mary Lucy Hargrove. For children of workers, was open in
1921 |
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Stevens Pottery School
Stevens Pottery, Gordon Hwy. All
grades. bldg next to Mitchell Zion Church. 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. |
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; GNIS
Map |
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Trilby School
Hwy. 112, near Little Black Creek.
All grades. GINIS
Map, 1908 County Map |
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Union Hill School
Union Hill Church Rd. southwest
Baldwin Co. All grades, white, was next to Union Hill Church. Bethel Beck
teacher in 1920 |
Union
Point School
Intersection of Hwy 24 and
Deepstep Rd. 1908 County Map
Union Point Junior High
Established 1922. Professor N.
S. Timmons, principal; Miss Bertha Hold, assistant principal; Mrs W. E.
Hodges & Mrs. Florence Crocker, assistants |
Unknown
Hwy. 49 SW, 1 mile south of
New Hope Methodist Church 1908 county map
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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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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 |
Watson
School
West Baldwin. 1908 White.
All grades. Was open in 1921
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