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Clinton Female Seminary State Historical
Marker
- Located in small park on Pulaski St. 2/10 mile east
of intersection of US 129 and Green Settlement Rd, 2 miles west
of Gray City Hall
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32.99695448, -83.55867408
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- (Text)
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- CLINTON FEMALE SEMINARY
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- Clinton Female Seminary was incorporated
on Dec. 15, 1821 by Act of Legislature signed by Gov. John Clark.
Trustees were James Smith, Gustavus Hendrick, Samuel Lowther,
Henry G. Lamar and Charles J. McDonald. This successful school
under Rev. Thomas Bog Slade, honor graduate of Chapel Hill, N.
C., was the forerunner of Georgia Female College (Wesleyan) in
Macon. On Jan. 9, 1839 Prof. Slade went to Wesleyan as leading
instructor, taking 30 students and two of his best teachers with
him. He wrote the first diploma delivered at Wesleyan, said to
be the first degree granted by any college to a woman.
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- 084-11 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1956
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