Thomas County GaArchives Photo Place.....Vashti Industrial School 1918 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: James Wade Bishop http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00020.html#0004768 September 9, 2012, 5:01 pm Source: James Wade Bishop .. Private Collection Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/thomas/photos/vashtiin25073ph.jpg Image file size: 58.6 Kb VASHTI INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL opened in the fall of 1903 as Vashti-Blasingame School for Girls and changed its name within a few months to Vashti Industrial School, deciding that the original name was too long. The main building, shown here was renamed BISHOP HALL at a ceremony in 1953 dedicating the restored building as a memorial to ELMER ELLSWORTH BISHOP (1869- 1946), superintendent of Vashti 1907-1920. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/thomas/photos/vashtiin25073ph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb