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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOSM_ware-high-school_Augusta-GA.html
Near this site stood Ware High School, which was the first public high school for African-Americans in Georgia and one of only five in the south while it was in operation. Founded in 1880, it was named for Edmund Asa Ware, Freedman`s Bureau Office…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOH0_john-mcclinton-tutt_Augusta-GA.html
For over six decades, John Tutt educated Augusta's youth at the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute and Lucy Craft Laney High School. After graduating from Lincoln University in 1905, Tutt returned to Augusta to teach Mathematics. Coach Tutt's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO92_the-augusta-canal_Augusta-GA.html
Until the Enterprise Mill was builtAugustans were not sure that the 1875enlargement of the canal had workedto attract industry.The 1848 granite block building at thecanal end of this complex is a formerflour mill and the only remainingindustrial s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO5F_dr-john-m-tutt_Augusta-GA.html
Revered as a teacher and a coach,"Professor Tutt" began his careerunder the leadership of Miss LucyC. Laney at Haines Institute, wherehe remained from 1906 to 1949, longer than anyone else. From LincolnUniversity (Pennsylvania), he recievedthe Bac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNR2_lafayette-visits-augusta_Augusta-GA.html
This is the site of the old Planter`s Hotel, which was burned in 1839. There the Marquis de LaFayette was entertained during his visit to Augusta in March 1825. LaFayette landed at Savannah on March 19th and traveled to Augusta with Governor Troup…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN9Z_haines-normal-and-industrial-institute_Augusta-GA.html
Established by influential educator Lucy Craft Laney, the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute was chartered in 1886 and grew to include a Kindergarten to Junior College curriculum, the Lamar School of Nursing, and a teacher training program. Na…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN3W_veterans-of-all-wars_Augusta-GA.html
Dedicated to The Glory OfGodAnd To TheVeteransOf All Wars Dedicated November 11, 1983
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMSW_the-first-academy-of-richmond-county_Augusta-GA.html
One block east on Bay Street was opened as a boys' classicial school on April 12, 1785. Here President George Washington attended examinations in 1791. The buildings housed the General Assembly of Georgia when Augusta was the capital, the Federal …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMN9_the-augusta-canal_Augusta-GA.html
The Augusta Canal, begun in 1845 and comleted in 1847, provided power for one of the first cotton textile manufacturing plants in the South and was the beginning of the development of Augusta as a great textile manufacturing center.The canal was b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMJL_signal-corps-aviation-school_Augusta-GA.html
On the Barnes farm, south and east of this marker, one of the first military aviation training centers in the U.S. was established in 1911. After successful test flights of the second Wright airplane in 1909, the Wright brothers agreed to the esta…
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