Crisp County GaArchives History - Schools .....HISTORYM OF COUNTY SCHOOLS 1959
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 AMONG THE FIRST WAVE OF SETTLERS THAT CAME INTO DOOLY COUNTY, WHICH AT THAT 
TIME INCLUDED WHAT IS NOW CRISP, WERE SCHOOL TEACHERS, AND THERE ARE RECORDS 
OF SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTY FROM THE BEGINNING. A CRIPPLED TEACHER, BY THE NAME 
OF WHITNEY, WAS OPERATING A SCHOOL IN THIS COUNTY WHEN HE WAS MURDERED BY THE 
CREEKS IN 1835. CAPTAIN HIRAM WILLIAMS CAME INTO THE COUNTY AS A TEACHER ABOUT 
1841.
 ONE OF THE EARLIEST SCHOOLS WAS OLIVER BOARDING SCHOOL WHICH WAS ATTENDED BY 
ONE OF CRISP'S EARLIEST SETTLERS, JOHN S. PATE. LATER HE TAUGHT SCHOOL,I NFACT 
HE BOUGHT  A SAW MILL AND CUT LUMBER AND SHINGLES AND BUILT THE FIRST LARGE 
SCHOOLHOUSE IN THE PATEVILLE COMMUNITY, AND WAS INSTRUMENTAL WITH OTHERS IN 
MAKING IT A HIGH SCHOOL.
 THE CORDELE ACADEMY, AT SEVENTH STREET AND 12TH AVE, WAS THE ONLY SCHOOL IN 
THE CITY UNTIL 1895. THIS IS THE SCHOOL WHICH THE LATE SENATOR GEORGE 
ATTENDED. PROFESSOR CRITTENDON AND MISS VAN MITCHELL WERE THE FIRST TEACHERS 
OF THE ACADEMY. OTHER PUPILS LISTED AMONG THE EARLIEST ATTENDENTS WERE MRS. 
ADELINE McIVER GRIFFIN, JOHN LEE WHEELER, RUSS HARRIS, MRS. ESSIE COB, MRS. 
NELSE KING, AND MRS O.T. GOWER.
 THE LITTLE- WHITE PAINTED, BROWN TRIMMED BUILDING THAT HOUSED THE ACADEMY 
BECAME THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AFTER A NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL WAS BUILT IN 1895. 
THIS BUILDING WAS TORN DOWN IN 1950 WHEN THE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH MOVED INTO 
A NEW BRICK BUILDING ON 13TH AVE.
 THE FAST-GROWING CITY OF CORDELE BEGAN TO HAVE SCHOOL TROUBLES, SO IN 1894 
J.S. PATE GAVE THE CITY 20 LOTS FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES. THE NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL 
THEN OPENEDON JULY 30 THE FOLLOWING YEAR. THE TRUSTEES WERE J.S. PATE,A. 
KIRKLIN, J.T. HILL,L.H. WEBB, J.W. BIVINS, AND C.J. THOMPSON. PROFESSOR WARE, 
MISS MADGE BASS, MISS DORA BRINSON, AND MISS ABBOTT SPARTLIN WERE THE TEACHERS.
 LATER THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN CORDELE CAME TO INCLUDE O'NEAL, NORTHERN HEIGHTS, 
AND A HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING, WHICH NOW HOUSES THE JR. HIGH SCHOOL. AND IN 1938 
THE CRISP COUNTY SCHOOLS BECAME CONSOLIDATED WITH THREE SCHOOLS BEING BUILT, 
EAST CRISP, WEST CRISP, AND ARABI.
 IN 1957 THE COUNTY AND THE CITY SCHOOL SYSTEMS MERGED INTO WHAT IS NOW CALLED 
CRISP COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM, WITH DR. GRAYSON HILL AS SUPERINTENDENT AND 
PROCTOR ALLEN, ASST. SUPERINTENDENT.
 

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