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Planter's Academy State Historical Marker
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Located on Ga. 11 at Wayside
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33.06188856, -83.60604883
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- (Text)
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- PLANTER'S ACADEMY
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- The Farmer's Academy (later Planter's
Academy) was incorporated Dec. 19, 1822 by Act of Legislature
signed by Gov. John Clark. Trustees included Bailey Bell, Adam
Carson, Kinchen P. Thweatt, James Lockett, Cyrus Cotton, Samuel
Barron and William Cowan. Early teachers were Wilson Whatley,
William Whatley, Joe Carson, J. R. Jenkins, J. A. Bowers, James
F. Barron. Family names on the school rolls were Barron, Hunt,
Brown, Jones, Green, Hascall, Henseley, Whatley and Walker. The
academy building was burned by Sherman's forces in November 1864
and was never rebuilt.
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- 084-12 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1956
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