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A pioneer of rural education, Marvin Pittman led Georgia Southern's forerunner from 1934 to 1946, building its teacher-training mission. His politically motivated 1941 ouster was overturned; the campus laboratory school still bears his name.
Marvin Summers Pittman is a historical marker in Statesboro, Bulloch County. It is one of 40 historical markers documented in Bulloch County, among 134 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 32.4262, -81.7826 near Statesboro. The nearest cataloged historic site is First District Agricultural and Mechanical School (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Integration of Georgia Southern, Pioneer Turpentining Experiment, and Georgia Southern University.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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