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HISTORY OF THE GEORGIA ACADEMY FOR THE BLIND 

The Georgia Academy for the Blind grew out of a private charity project 
undertaken by Professor Walter S. Fortescue, of the Pennsylvania School for the 
Blind, and a group of civic-minded Macon citizens in 1852. After the school had 
been in operation for about a year, the General Assembly of Georgia 
incorporated and endowed the Academy. 

Nathan C. Munroe, Absalom H. Chappell, John B. Lamar, Edwin B. Weed, James M. 
Green, Edwin Graves, and Robert A. Smith were named Trustees of the Georgia 
Academy for the Blind.

The same trustees continued under the State Charter, Professor Fortescue was 
retained as principal, and an appropriation of $5,000 was provided. 

The first school building, as such, was at Orange and Forsyth Streets and the 
Academy remained at that location until the Vineville Avenue School was 
completed in 1906. For a time during the War Between the States, the school was 
moved to Fort Valley and the building at the Orange and Forsyth Street site was 
used as a hospital. It is reported that before the close of the war, the 
Trustees admitted at least one Confederate Veteran who had lost his sight in 
battle. 



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