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Bainbridge State College was a public college in Bainbridge, Georgia. It was part of the University System of Georgia which merged it into Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in 2017. The college's campus was located on 173 acres (0.70 km 2 ) of land just inside the Bainbridge city limits on U.S. Highway 84 East.
Lynching of Wilbur Little. Map of Blakely on a map of Early County (left) and Georgia (right) Wilbur Little (also William [1] [2] or Wilbert [3] in some sources) was a black American veteran of World War I, lynched in April 1919 in his hometown of Blakely, Georgia, for refusing to remove his military uniform. Servicemen who had been discharged ...
BLAKELY, Ga. (WDHN) — Lillie George was driving from Blakely to Cairo, Georgia, last week with her two daughters. It was noon, and the heat was blazing. As they were driving on Highway 84 ...
01001430 [1] Added to NRHP. January 11, 2002. The James and Clara Butler House, at 418 College St. in Blakely, Georgia, was built around 1890. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [1] It is a one-story, frame, Folk Victorian-style, Georgian cottage. It has a steep side-gable roof. [2]
Marvin Griffin. Samuel Marvin Griffin, Sr. (September 4, 1907 – June 13, 1982) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. A lifelong Democrat, Griffin was a native of Bainbridge, Georgia and publisher of the Bainbridge Post-Searchlight. He served as the 72nd governor of Georgia from 1955 to 1959, where he supported educational ...
The Bainbridge Residential Historic District in Bainbridge, Georgia is an irregularly shaped 125 acres (51 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It then had 197 contributing buildings and 76 non-contributing ones. The overall plan of the neighborhood was also deemed to be a contributing resource.
In black and white photographs, and writings about the subjects of the pictures, Paul Kwilecki documented life in the small town of Bainbridge in Decatur County, Georgia. Surrounded by farms, swamps, and forests, Bainbridge lies in the southwest corner of Georgia. When Kwilecki made his pictures, Decatur County had a population of around 23,000 ...
Blakely is located at (31.376728, -84.933873 The city is located in southwestern Georgia along U.S. Route 27, Georgia State Route 62, and Georgia State Route 39.Blakely is located approximately 75 mi (121 km) south of Columbus, 48 mi (77 km) southwest of Albany, and 76 mi (122 km) northwest of Tallahassee, Florida and 24 miles northeast of Dothan, Alabama.