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After Emancipation, Augusta's Black community built schools as freedom's reward. Springfield Baptist members founded the institute that became Morehouse College, and 1880's Ware High was Georgia's first publicly funded Black high school until an 1899 ruling closed it.
Education is a historical marker in Augusta, Richmond County. It is one of 148 historical markers documented in Richmond County, among 249 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.4790, -81.9725 near Augusta. The nearest cataloged historic site is A Historical Timeline of Augusta (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include We've Come This Far by Faith:, Civil War and Emancipation, and Baptism.
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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