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Wesleyan College Historical Marker
- Wesleyan College State Historical
Marker
- Located at College Street and Georgia Avenue in Macon,
Ga.
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- SITE: WESLEYAN COLLEGE
- WORLD'S FIRST COLLEGE CHARTERED
TO
- GRANT DEGREES TO WOMEN
On December 23, 1836, the Legislature
of the State of Georgia chartered The Georgia Female College.
The first class graduated July 26, 1840. In 1843, the name was
changed to Wesleyan Female College in 1919 to Wesleyan College.
The oldest sororities in the world
were founded at Wesleyan: The Adelphean Society, now Alpha Delta
Pi Sorority, 1851, and the Philomathean Society, now Phi Mu Fraternity,
1852. The world's first alumnae association for a women's college
was organized at Wesleyan in 1859.
Through early years of doubt, Wesleyan
bore witness that women were capable of receiving higher education.
the motto on its seal -- Scienta et Pietas-- represents ideals
which have inspired her graduates to go forth to the far corners
of the earth to teach, to lead, to serve.
In 1928, the college moved six
miles northwest to the new Rivoli campus. The Wesleyan Conservatory
and school of Fine Arts remained in the original buildings until
1953 when they were transferred to Rivoli. Old Wesleyan College
and the adjoining Pierce Chapel burned February 24, 1963.
011-12 GEORGIA HISTORIC
MARKER 1986
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