MONROE COUNTY, GA - History  Academies

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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE State of Georgía,
PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN
NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1831.

1831

MONROE Sec. 3. And that Collier Foster, John
Chambless, James [Illegible Text] Allen Martin and
Shelman Durham, and their [Illegible Text] in office,
be, and they are hereby appointed and declared
[Illegible Text] be a body corporate, under the name
and style of the [Illegible Text] of the Jackson
Academy, in the county of Monroe.

NOTE by Jane Newton: Jackson Academy was  in the are
of now Rumble Road here in Monroe County.

MONROE Sec. 9. And that Mariner Culpeper, William C.
Redding, John Shockley, and their successors in
office, be, and they are hereby appointed trustees and
declared to be a body corporate, under the name and
style of the Jefferson Academy, in Monroe county.

Sec. 10. And that Timothy Mathews, J. G. Rains, James
Phillips, Thomas Redding, and Frederick D. Wimberly,
and their successors in office, be, and they are
hereby appointed trustees, and declared to be a body
corporate, under the name and title of the County Line
Academy, in Monroe county.


1832 Acts

MONROE That Robert McGough, Alexander Russell, Reddick
B. Perry, William Turner and Robert Winn, and their
successors in office, be appointed trustees of the
Pine Grove Grammer school, in the county of Monroe.

1837 Acts

MONROE Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That Josiah
G. Jordan, James Harden, John Chewning, James Watson,
and Alexander Russell be, and they are hereby
appointed Trustees of the Russellville Academy, in the
county of Monroe.

MONROE Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That John
C. Baldwin, Absolum Joiner, John Davidson, Wm. Hollis,
and Wm. McGinty be, and they are hereby appointed
Trustees of the Farmers' Academy, in the county of
Monroe.

MONROE Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That Dr.
James D. Head, Littleton Johnston, Elihu N. Waldrup,
Dr. John Shanon, and Nathaniel T. Myrick be, and they
are hereby appointed Trustees of the Gulletsville
Academy, in the county of Monroe.

Note: Jane Newton - Gulletsville was the community now
known as Cabaniss here in Monroe County so I am sure
the Academy was in the now Cabaniss area. 

MONROE Sec. 59. And be it further enacted, That there
shall be an election held at Gulletsville Academy, on
the first Saturday in January, in the year eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine, and on the first Saturday in
every year thereafter, for five Trustees of said
Academy, who shall act until the first Saturday in the
year thereafter; and that no person shall be entitled
to vote at said election, but those who may reside
within the captains of militia districts in which
Gulletsville Academy is situated; and are entitled to
vote for members of Legislature of said county; and
the said election may be held and managed by any three
freeholders of said district, and the polls of said
election shall be opened at eight o'clock in the
morning, and closed at four o'clock in the evening of
the same day; and the managers of such election shall
give to such persons as may get the largest or highest
number of votes, a certificate of their election as
Trustees, which certificates shall be a sufficient
authority for acting as trustees for said Academy for
the term hereinbefore specified.