South Georgia College, also referred to as Old South Georgia College was a Methodist affiliated school in
McRae, Georgia. It opened in 1892. The school closed in 1928. The campus was sold to the local school district. campus and was a high school until the 1960s when it became a primary school. Its administration building is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
and is now part of
Telfair Center for the Arts.
Reverend W. A. Huckabee was its first president.
Young
Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery taught at the school. The cane syrup factory
W. R. Roddenbery Building, part of the
Cairo Commercial Historic District, is in
Cairo, Georgia
Cairo () is a city in Grady County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 10,179. The city is the county seat of Grady County.
History
Cairo was founded in 1835. It was incorporated as a town in 1870 and ...
.
The
Roddenbery Memorial Library
The Roddenbery Memorial Library (RML) is a single-branch public library system serving the county of Grady County, Georgia, Grady, located in the U.S.state of Georgia (U.S. State), Georgia. The library is located in Cairo, Georgia.
RML is a memb ...
in Cairo is named for the family that donated its building.
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Education in Telfair County, Georgia