The Sisters of Saint Joseph in Augusta-GHS 121-11-Richmond Co
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N 33° 28.549 W 082° 01.650
17S E 404531 N 3704510
1220 Monte Sano Dr., Augusta
Waymark Code: WM78M0
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/19/2009
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Members of the seventeenth-century French Order of Saint Joseph of Carondelet were first invited to Georgia at the end of the Civil War to teach and staff an orphanage in Savannah. Working with the children of African Americans, the Sisters of St. Joseph received praise and scorn. After serving briefly at a girls´ school in Washington , Georgia , the Sisters came to Augusta in 1912. Here they began Mount Saint Joseph Academy , which operated from 1915 until 1960. The Order´s convent stood at this location. Augusta institutions founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph include Saint Mary´s Elementary School, Aquinas High School , and St. Joseph´s Hospital.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 121-11
Date: 2006.4
Sponsor: The Georgia Historical Society
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