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People·s Village School. Mt. Meigs,
Ala.
Miss Georgia Washington, President
I N 1893. Mi. s Georgia Washington had a call to Mt. Meigs as
a lNLcher. On reaching there, she found that no schoolhouse
nor boarding place had been provided. Though
friendless and homeless, with" nowhere to lay her head," Miss •
Washington did not follow the advice to seek some other field of
PEOPLE'S VILLAGE SCHOOL, MT. MEIGS, ALA.
labor. In time. four students met the" Northern teacher" in
the parsonage of the Antioch Bapti t Church, and People's
Village School had it. beginning. It was incorporated in 1896,
three years later.
A boarding place for the teacher was secured two and one-half
miles away. Later he rented a mall house in which he cooked,
ate, and slept alone. oon the school had outgrown the parsonage
and found a place in the church buildinO', with foul' teacher.
An acre of land wa. purchased, and a teachers' home (of two
rooms) erected. One room ('rved as class room by day and
bed room by night. The oUler was kitchen, dining room, and
pantry, with a bcd in a corner.
A plan to build a. ChOOUlOU e was put into execution, although
pronounced impractical. The present chool building is the
result. The next step was to secure land. The present property
consists of a teacher' home, rated ome time ago at $2,000;
a schoolhouse, $3,500; a farm, $1,400; live stock and farming
implements, $400; total, $7,300. Annual expenses are approxi-mately
$5,000, secured from donations and tuition. In 1908,
the Negroes paid as tuition $675, a little more than one third of
the total running expenses of the school.
There were 80 male and 95 female students in 1908, from
twelve to twenty-one years of age. There were 1 male and 6 female
teachers. In the schoolroom, the children are taught not
only from books, but are taught the dignity of labor. Domestic
science for the girls and field and garden work for the boys are
means of creating in them a love for the realities of home railier
than stimulating a desire for the artificialities of the city.
Credit is given to the Lord for the wonderful blessings iliat
have attended the work of this school.
Sandersville Normal and Industrial School,
Sandersville, Ga.
T. ]. Elder, Principal
FOUNDED 1889. Property, valued at $4,275, vested in the city
school board. Approximate annual expenses, $1,700, of which
the city pays about $1,000. Six teachers, 340 students.
Students in agriculture, carpentry, sewing, basketry and other
handicrafts. and music.
In 1900 an exhibit of work was sent to the Georgia State
Fair and won a diploma; in 1901 a similar exhibit at the State
Fair in Savannah received the first prize of fifty dollars, the
highest prize offet'ed to colored schools.
SANDERSVILLE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
