Muscogee County GaArchives Photo Place.....Historic Marker: Ninth Street Branch YMCA, Side 1 April 2006
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        Ninth Street Branch YMCA

In 1901, GORGE FOSTER PEABODY and his Brothers
  made an odder to the colored men and boys of 
 Columbus to build a YMCA on the condition they
  raise $1,000, purchase a building lot and get
membership of 300 men. On Sunday April 28,
   1901 a mass meeting at St. James A.M.E.
  Church was held and the Ninth Street Branch
YMCA was founded with 178 men. About 1902 the
  lot at 903 sixth Avenue was purchased.
   Mr. Peabody and his brothers donated
$20,000 to the colored people of Columbus to
build the YMCA in 1907. At that time, it was the 
  second modern Negro YMCA building in the
    country and the first in the South.
          (Continued on other side)

               Erected 2002

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