CLARKE COUNTY, GA - HISTORY  State Normal School 
 
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State Normal Sc(hool) 
Athens, Georgia
SENIOR CHORUS
Unde(r) the di(rect)ion of Miss Esther Benson
Accompanist, Mrs. J. W. Bailey
POUND AUDITORIUM
Monday Evening, May Twenty-sixth
Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-four
Eighth O'clock
 
Inside the actual program songs along with the singers names and parts are listed. 

Mrs. Morris
Miss Lucile Kinnebrew and
Mrs. Yow

"A Midsummer Night"----Paul Bliss

 Some of the paper has disintegrated and possibly mice have eaten sections but it is legible

Note: President of the college who in 1925 was Dr. Jere M. Pound.
That info is in The Crystal which is the school annual.
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Normal School State Historical Marker 

Located at entrance to U.S. Navy School Supply Corps School on Prince Ave, one block west of Oglethorpe Avenue, Athens, Ga. 


FORMER SITE OF GEORGIA 

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 

  

In February 1860 the University of Georgia purchased 93 acres 
surrounding this site and later sold all but 30 acres to finance the construction of Rock College, a preparatory school for the 
University of Georgia. 

Between 1862 and 1891 the school served the 
educational needs of Georgia in a variety of roles. In 1891 the Georgia 
General Assembly established the State Normal School on this site 
to train Georgians to be rural teachers. The nearby commercial area 
soon adopted the name "Normal Town." 

The oldest remaining academic building on campus, Winnie Davis Hall, was erected in 1902 as a memorial to the daughter of Jefferson Davis. In 1910 the Carnegie 
Library was erected with a grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation. 

Because of its historical and educational significance, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1929 the institution's name was changed to The Coordinate College. 

During WW II, the campus was used by the U.S. Army as a training site and after WW II the school was again occupied by women students attending the university. In 1953 the site was purchased by the U.S. Navy as a permanent location for its Supply Corps School. 
 
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