Andrew College-GHM 120-5-Randolph Co
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N 31° 46.312 W 084° 47.719
16R E 708781 N 3517264
US 82W in Cuthbert at the campus opposite Andrew Street
Waymark Code: WMA76P
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 11/26/2010
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Cuthbert is the site of Andrew College, founded here January 1854, named in honor of Bishop James O. Andrew whose refusal to free his Wife´s slaves separated the Northern and Southern Methodist Episcopal Churches (1844). First President - Augustus Alden, of Yale, a pioneer in Georgia for higher education.
The second college chartered to confer graduate degrees upon women. Served as a Confederate Hospital 1863-65.
The first women´s college in the Soth to include Physical Education in its curriculum (1867)
Today, a fully accredited Junior College, it has upheld throughout a century the highest principles of education, Christian womanhood.
GHM 120-5 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1953
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 120-5
Date: 1953
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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