Rockby

Rockby (HMG13)

Location: Sparta, GA 31087 Hancock County
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N 33° 17.463', W 82° 56.299'

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About 1 mi. from here, Richard Malcolm Johnston, lawyer, educator, and author, operated Rockby, a school for boys revolutionary in its day. Disgusted with the harsh disciplinary methods of the time, Johnston instituted an honor system whereby students were expected to report their own misdemeanors. His system of discipline, "at once so liberal and so exacting," worked remarkably well, and Rockby enjoyed wide patronage. Opened in Jan., 1862, the school prospered until after the Civil War.

Johnston left Ga. in 1867 under the social and financial pressures of Reconstruction and reopened his school as Pen Lucy School in Baltimore, Md. Forty Ga. boys followed their teacher to Md. and Pen Lucy continued in the Rockby tradition for about six years. Financial distress in Ga. later curtailed Johnston's main supply of boarding pupils, and, finding his honor system less effective when applied to day pupils with whom the teacher had limited contact, he finally closed the school.

Johnston's best-known literary work, Dukesborough Tales, was inspired by his own experiences. In his autobiography he identified Powelton, Hancock County, Ga., as "Dukesborough."
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HM NumberHMG13
Series This marker is part of the Georgia: Georgia Historical Society/Commission series
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Marker Number070-11
Year Placed1963
Placed ByGeorgia Historical Commission
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Date Added Friday, September 26th, 2014 at 3:41pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17S E 319513 N 3685229
Decimal Degrees33.29105000, -82.93831667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 33° 17.463', W 82° 56.299'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds33° 17' 27.78" N, 82° 56' 17.94" W
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Area Code(s)706
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 69 Augusta Hwy, Sparta GA 31087, US
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