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Mount Meigs (also Evansville or Mount Pleasant) is an unincorporated community in
Montgomery County Montgomery County may refer to:
Australia
* The former name of Montgomery Land District, Tasmania
United Kingdom
* The historic county of Montgomeryshire, Wales, also called County of Montgomery
United States
* Montgomery County, Alabama
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in the state of Alabama. The Mount Meigs Campus
The Mount Meigs Campus is a juvenile corrections facility of the Alabama Department of Youth Services located in the Mount Meigs community, and in the city of Montgomery, Alabama; the campus serves as the agency's administrative headquarters.
, a juvenile correctional facility and the headquarters of the Alabama Department of Youth Services
The Alabama Department of Youth Services (DYS) is a state agency of Alabama, headquartered on the grounds of the Mount Meigs Campus in Mount Meigs, and in Montgomery.lumber. Cook Station and Mount Meigs Station were two main stations in the region. During World War II they switched to hauling
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Government and infrastructure
The Alabama Department of Corrections
The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) is the agency responsible for incarceration of convicted felons in the state of Alabama in the United States. It is headquartered in the Alabama Criminal Justice Center in Montgomery.
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(ADOC) operates the Kilby Correctional Facility
Kilby Correctional Facility is an Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) prison for the state of Alabama, located in Mt. Meigs, Alabama, Mt. Meigs, an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Alabama, with a capacity to house over 1,400 inmate ...
in Mount Meigs. Kilby serves as receiving and processing center for all male Alabama state inmates. The Montgomery Women's Facility, an ADOC facility for women, is located behind Kilby.
The Mount Meigs Campus
The Mount Meigs Campus is a juvenile corrections facility of the Alabama Department of Youth Services located in the Mount Meigs community, and in the city of Montgomery, Alabama; the campus serves as the agency's administrative headquarters.
, a juvenile correctional facility and the headquarters of the Alabama Department of Youth Services
The Alabama Department of Youth Services (DYS) is a state agency of Alabama, headquartered on the grounds of the Mount Meigs Campus in Mount Meigs, and in Montgomery.United States Postal Service operates the Mount Meigs Post Office.
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Demographics
In July, 2007 the Mount Meigs area population was 5,564.Education
The Montgomery Public Schools
Montgomery Public Schools is a school district headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. The current Superintendent of Montgomery Public Schools is Melvin Brown. The district serves the city of Montgomery and surrounding Montgomery Co ...
district formerly operated Georgia Washington Middle School in Mount Meigs. It is now Pike Road High School
Pike Road High School is a public school in Pike Road, Alabama, a part of Pike Road Schools. The school site was home to the People's Village School, later renamed Georgia Washington Middle School, until it was acquired by the school system of ...
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In 1893 a woman named Georgia Washington, a former slave, arrived in Mount Meigs to start a school. By October of that year she opened a public school in her by rented cabin. It later moved to the Antioch Baptist Church. By February 1894 the residents bought a plot of land and built an by schoolhouse. By 1916 the Peoples Village School occupied a two-story schoolhouse. The current Georgia Washington School opened in 1950. Washington died in 1952, and the school occupying what was the Peoples Village School was renamed after her. In 1974 the school was converted into a middle school. A new wing at Washington Middle opened in 2004.
Notable residents
* J. Marion Sims, physician. In a letter of 1836, Sims described the town as "nothing bur a pile of gin-houses, stables, blacksmith-shops, grog-shops, taverns and stores, thrown together in one promiscuous huddle". *Fred Shuttlesworth
Frederick Lee Shuttlesworth (born Fred Lee Robinson, March 18, 1922 – October 5, 2011) was a U.S. civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama. He was a co-founder o ...
, civil rights activist; born in Mount Meigs
* Vernon H. Vaughan
Vernon H. Vaughan (February 11, 1838 – December 4, 1878) was an American political leader.
Biography
Born in Mount Meigs, Alabama, he served as Utah territorial secretary to Governor John Shaffer, and after Shaffer's untimely death in o ...
, Governor of Utah Territory; born in Mount Meigs/ref>
Gallery
Mount Meigs Campus
The Mount Meigs Campus is a juvenile corrections facility of the Alabama Department of Youth Services located in the Mount Meigs community, and in the city of Montgomery, Alabama; the campus serves as the agency's administrative headquarters.
See also
*Alabama Department of Youth Services School District
The Alabama Department of Youth Services School District is the school district of the Alabama Department of Youth Services, located in Mount Meigs, Alabama. Dr. John Stewart is the superintendent
Superintendent may refer to:
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References
{{authority control Unincorporated communities in Alabama Unincorporated communities in Montgomery County, Alabama