“I should like to help the little country schools,” Anna Jeanes said, so she established a foundation that supported Jeanes supervisors in rural schools in the American South. Supervisors visited the schools, often one room in a church or lodge, providing encouragement, support, and instruction for the teachers there. Here Read more…
The two had a “difficulty,” as the expression went. The Clerk of the Superior Court, Rufus J. Pinckard, sent the county’s legal ads to a Macon newspaper to run instead of placing them with “The Bee,” the local journal. So Joseph Cohron, the irate publisher of “The Bee,” shot Pinckard Read more…
“Eleanor” was the name the Georgia legislature gave in 1907 in the act of incorporation for the mill community established by Captain J. M. Ponder for his workers. Its name came from Eleanor, his younger granddaughter. His older granddaughter was Juliette, but the town on the Ocmulgee River had already Read more…