Jeruel Academy
Jeruel Academy was a school for African Americans established in Athens, Georgia in 1881. Classes were originally held at Landrum Chapel, part of Ebenezer Baptist Church, West. The school was organized by the Rev. Collins Henry Lyons. A school building was constructed in 1886. Courses included English, Greek, Latin, French, history, mathematics, public speaking, agriculture, sewing, cooking, music, and printing. The school was merged with three others in 1924 to become part of Union Baptist Institute. After Baptist institute was dissolved during the desegregation era the building was demolished in 1956. The site, once located in the Linnentown neighborhood, is now part of the University of Georgia campus and commemorated by a historical marker. An image of the building by Jackson Davis shows a three-story structure with some window openings in the roofline. Hampton Collins Moon went to school at Jeruel Academy and worked as a steward for several terms while he was there to earn ...
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Athens, Georgia
Athens, officially Athens–Clarke County, is a consolidated city-county and college town in the U.S. state of Georgia. Athens lies about northeast of downtown Atlanta, and is a satellite city of the capital. The University of Georgia, the state's flagship public university and an R1 research institution, is in Athens and contributed to its initial growth. In 1991, after a vote the preceding year, the original City of Athens abandoned its charter to form a unified government with Clarke County, referred to jointly as Athens–Clarke County. As of 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau's population of the consolidated city-county (all of Clarke County except Winterville and a portion of Bogart) was 127,315. Athens is the sixth-largest city in Georgia, and the principal city of the Athens metropolitan area, which had a 2020 population of 215,415, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Metropolitan Athens is a component of the larger Atlanta–Athens–Clarke County–Sandy Springs Combin ...
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Defunct Schools In Georgia (U
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1881 Establishments In Georgia (U
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