University of West Georgia 022-4 Carrollton, GA
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N 33° 34.300 W 085° 05.695
16S E 676821 N 3716290
Located on the campus of the university, 1601 Maple Street, Carrollton
Waymark Code: WM15WPX
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 03/10/2022
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In January, 1908, the Fourth District Agricultural and Mechanical School opened here with 96 students under Principal John Holland Melson. In 1933 the state withdrew support from its agricultural high schools and also Bowdon College, eleven miles west of here. As a result, this school was reorganized as West Georgia College, a junior unit of the University System of Georgia. It became a senior college in 1957 under President Irvine Sullivan Ingram who headed the institution from 1920 to 1960. This was the longest administrative tenure in the history of the University of Georgia if its system schools are included.
Originally there were two brick buildings, being Melson Hall and the Administration building. Adamson Hall was added in 1917. All stand in (1966) west of this point. The frame structure on this site was built c. 1845 as a plantation house of Thomas Bonner. In April 1865, the house was raided by Federal cavalry under Brigadier-General John T. Croxton whose campsite was at a road-forks one mile west of here. The house became the first women´s dormitory on this campus. Until 1917 its location was 300 yards west of this point.
Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the commencement address here in 1929.
Type of Marker: Building
Marker #: 022-4
Date: 2019
Sponsor: The Georgia Historical Society and the University of West Georgia
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