Universities and colleges--Finance; Education, Secondary--Finance; Methodist universities and colleges; Wrightsville (Ga.); Warthen Institute
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Origin Information
1886
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
digitized microfilm
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 78
Note (Status of gift)
Promised but lapsed
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
Date based on grant approval.
Note (Historical note)
In 1888 the Methodist Episcopal Church established the Nannie Lou Warthen Institute, a district high school in Wrightsville. Three years later the school received a charter recognizing it as a college, and in the early 1900s its name was changed to Wa rthen College. Eventually it closed, but today local students may acquire post–high school education at the local campus of Southeastern Technical College, which maintains a center for adult education in Wrightsville...The Grice Inn, once a boarding house for students from Warthen College, is now the headquarters of the Johnson County Historical Society..." [SOURCE: Cooksey, Elizabeth B. "Johnson County." New Georgia Encyclopedia. 29 November 2016, https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/johnson-county. Accessed 29 Aug. 2018.] "Original Caption: In 1891 it was chartered as a college, but the name was not changed to Warthen College until the early 1900s. This wooden building was replaced with a brick structure in 1906. Later the college program was discontinued, and the high school program was taken over by the Warthen Board of Education." [SOURCE: "Wrightsville, ca. 1900. Nannie Lou Warthen Institute established 1888 as the district high school for the Sandersville District South Georgia Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South." University System of Georgia. Georgia Archives, http://vault.georgiaarchives.org/cdm/ref/collection/vg2/id/12778. Accessed 29 Aug. 2018.]
Language
English
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University