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Fourth District Agricultural and Mechanical School (Carrollton, Ga.)

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1906 - 1933

Biographical / Historical

The Fourth District Agricultural and Mechanical School was established in December, 1906 in Carroll County, Georgia following the August 18, 1906 approval of Public Law 448 by the Georgia General Assembly, an act providing for the establishment and maintenance of schools of agriculture and mechanical arts to serve rural youth in each congressional district. The school operated from 1908-1933, becoming West Georgia College on April 15, 1933. It remained a college until noon on June 12, 1996, when it was named the State University of West Georgia. This name changed in 2005 to University of West Georgia.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

W. Fred Gunn papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0022
Overview

Papers of William (known as W. Fred) Gunn, Dean of West Georgia College from 1933 to 1946.

Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1944-1946; 1933-1958

Irvine S. Ingram papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-0002-01
Overview

Public and private papers of the second principal of the Fourth District Agricultural and Mechanical School in Georgia, who then became the first president of West Georgia College. His term as the first president of West Georgia College lasted from 1933-1960.

Dates: 1886-1978