Exhibits
Education History Exhibit
The Monroe County Bicentennial Commission developed the following exhibit on Education History.
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Bicentennial Book Sale
The Friends of the Monroe County Library have cancelled the book sale.
Events
Birthday Celebration
Let us eat cake and wish Monroe County a Happy Birthday! Join use on June 5, 2021 at 11am until 1pm at the Forsyth Convention & Visitors Bureau office. Be one of the first to purchase the student designed t-shirt by Jordan McCord. Jordan will be on hand to autograph Read more…
Did You Know
Did you know that a Philadelphia Quaker had an impact on the education of African American students in Monroe County?
“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…
Did You Know
Did you know that the publisher of a local newspaper fatally shot the Monroe County Clerk of Superior Court in 1850– was not convicted?
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…
Did You Know
Did you know that Juliette is not the only feminine place name in the history of Monroe County?
“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…