Universities and colleges--Finance; Universities and colleges--Endowments; Women's colleges; Thomasville (Ga.); Young's Female College
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1886 and 1914]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
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)
1869: Young's Female College, in Thomasville, Georgia was founded in 1869. It had 15 teachers and 115 students in 1906." [SOURCE: "Women's colleges in the Southern United States." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_colleges_in_the_Sout hern_United_States#Former_and_defunct_women's_schools. Accessed 20 Jul. 2018.] "The house called Green Square is a modified Greek Revival with elaborate woodwork and plaster molding on the ceilings. Located on North Dawson Street, it was constructed around 1856 by Ephraim Ponder, a wealthy slave trader... ...In 1869, the trustees of Young's Female College, named for Elijah R. Young, a benefactor who donated $30,000 to the school, used the property as the campus. Green Square served as the president's home and, for a time, as a dorm. The college went bankrupt in 1914, when the house was sold to four men; two would sell their shares to their partners, which formed the start of an odd situation..." [SOURCE: Miles, Jim. Haunted South Georgia. Charleston, The History Press, 2017, pp. 129. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=0zwvDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA129&ots=aqjVaeV-Jb&dq=%22Young's%20Female%20College%22&pg=PA129#v=onepage&q&f=false. Accessed 29 Aug. 2018.]