TALBOT COUNTY, GA - HISTORY SCHOOLS Planter's Academy Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Virginia Crilley Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1836. ACTS of the General Assembly of the STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1836. ACADEMIES. 1836 Vol. 1 -- Page: 10 Sequential Number: 008 Type: AN ACT, Full Title: To incorporate the Trustees of the following Academies, to wit: -- The Trustees of Valley Grove Academy; of Planters' Academy; of Prattsburg Academy and Union Academy, in the county of Talbot; PLANTERS' ACADEMY That William T. Burke, John McMichael, William P. Edwards, Isaiah C. Fitten, Richard B. Rucker, Howel Short and Robert Horton and their successors in office, be declared a body corporate, by the style of the Trustees of PLANTERS' ACADEMY, in the county of Talbot. Robert Carson also deeded (April 6, 1842) to Planters Academy, an adjoining acre of land next to the Carsonville Methodist Church. (Land Lot #131, 24th Land District). The Trustees at the time were John Carson, William P. Edwards, John Emerson, Nathaniel Raines, Richard B. Rucker and Howell Short. Edwards and Rucker were prominent farmers, slaveholders and owners of large acreage (Talbot Co at that time). This early school was incorporated in 1835. Henry H. Mangham was one of the early teachers. Sources: Galileo Virtual Library www.galileo.uga.edu Oh, For a Touch of the Vanished Hand" by Dana M. Mangham pg 404