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Lucy Barrow McIntire
Lucy Barrow McIntire (July 11, 1886 – November 4, 1967), also called Miss Lucy, was an American suffragist, activist, preservationist, actor, and poet. Early life Lucy Barrow Davenport was born in Athens, Georgia, on July 11, 1886, to the prominent Davenport family. She married attorney Francis Percival McIntire; the couple moved to Francis' hometown of Savannah and had six children. The oldest, James William, was born in 1910; Francis Jr. on July 19, 1921; and the youngest, Pope, was born in 1924. Social and volunteer work While living in Savannah, McIntire co-founded local chapters of the Junior League of Savannah and the League of Women Voters; she was the first president of the Junior League of Savannah, and also served as president of both the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs and the Savannah Suffrage Association. McIntire helped to establish a free lunch program within the Chatham County School District, and she was the first woman to serve on Savannah's Metropolit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
