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Chartered in 1836, Wesleyan was the first college in the world established to grant degrees to women, and its entire 200-acre Georgian Revival campus is a National Register historic district. This walk crosses the Cambridge-inspired quadrangle past the fine-arts hall, the Shutze-designed alumnae center, and the library that together tell the story of a pioneering women's college.
Wesleyan College is a college & university in Macon, Bibb County. It is one of 3 colleges & universities documented in Bibb County, among 199 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 32.8750, -83.7145 near Macon. The nearest cataloged historic site is Olive Swann Porter Building (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Wesleyan College Historic District, Candler Library Building, and Hightower Hall Dormitory.
This record is drawn from Georgia Roam. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Wesleyan College is a private women's college in Macon, Georgia, affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Chartered on December 23, 1836, as the Georgia Female College, it is recognized as the first college in the world chartered specifically to grant degrees to women, and it admitted its first students in 1839. It continues to operate as a liberal arts college for women.
“Wesleyan College” names 2 distinct records in Bibb County. This page is the college & university in Macon. The others:
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