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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM219M_willow-hill-school-and-community_Portal-GA.html
In 1874, nine years after the Civil War ended, a group of former slaves of the Riggs, Donaldson, Parrish, and Hall families founded the Willow Hill School to serve the area's black children. Georgia Ann Riggs, age 15 and a former slave, was the fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM219L_willow-hill-elementary-school-for-negroes_Portal-GA.html
Willow Hill School was established in 1874 during Reconstruction as one of the first schools for African Americans in Bulloch County. It was privately supported until being sold to the local Board of Education in 1920. In 1954 the county built a n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM217W_old-portal_Portal-GA.html
The original Portal was located 2 miles north of the current site on Old Portal Road. It got its name in 1894, when the U.S. Postal Service approved a post office for Portal. The E. E. Foy Company, of Effingham County, built a mercantile store tha…