The First Academy of Richmond County
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Sprinterman
N 33° 28.401 W 081° 57.338
17S E 411206 N 3704173
Bay and Fourth Streets, Augusta
Waymark Code: WM7A6Q
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/26/2009
Views: 4
One block east on Bay Street was opened as a boy´s classical school on April 12, 1785. Here President George Washington attended examinations in 1791. The buildings housed the• General Assembly of Georgia when Augusta was the capital, the Federal District and Circuit courts, the county Superior and Inferior courts and the Masonic Lodge Columbia. In 1798 the school was closed because of a lack of money and the dilapidation of the buildings. It was reopened in 1802 on Telfair Street. Thence, it was removed to Baker Avenue in 1926.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 121-17
Date: 1954
Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
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