“USDA is proud to support rural cooperatives and utilities to make our energy more efficient, reliable and affordable and bring good-paying jobs to people in rural Georgia and across the nation.” “The Biden-Harris Administration and USDA are partnering with communities to make critical investments in infrastructure that will create opportunities for rural people and businesses for decades to come,” Torres Small said. The announcement was made from GreyStone Power Corporation in Hiram, Georgia where USDA is investing $141,938,000. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small today announced electric infrastructure investments in Georgia totaling $313 million to help four Georgia electric cooperatives and utilities expand and modernize the rural electric grid and increase grid security. On Harvest Road 1/2 mi east of 2nd Road, south of Bremen.Hiram, Ga., Jan. The “South School” here as well as a “North School” near the church were established in 1888. Located in the part of the county known as “Little Germany,” this marker commemorates a parochial school where some teaching was in German as late as the 1940s. In recent years as part of a spring celebration local schoolchildren have re-created activities of a one-room school here.īommer. Now a designated Scouthouse headquarters. A rural school, closed in 1952 and later moved to Nebraska and Elm streets in the Waterville City Park.

Moved to the city park in recent years and now houses a small museum. The first school building in Frankfort, used from 1870 until 1880. View Map Schoolhouses Moved to Town Parks At Zenith and 3rd Roads, 1 mile west of Highway 77, south of Waterville. Just north is the Harbaugh-Greenwood Cemetery. Former students meet here every fall for a reunion.

On Sunflower Road 1/2 mile west of 2nd Road, near western county border. The grave, marked by rocks, is in the northwest part of the schoolyard. In 1893 a woman who had died after the birth of her eighth child was buried here where her older children attended school. At 14th and Cherokee Roads, east of Oketo. It was named for the Scully family, wealthy landholders from Ireland, who once owned and rented out thousands of acres in Kansas and other midwestern states. This building was used from 1898 until 1953. Named for a family in the area, the school building was the scene of the 1891 school board election where a dispute led to the Goldsberry-Bender murder. At 29th Terrace (K-88) and Valley Road, south of Vermillion. The people in District 75 simply called their school by its number. On 19th Terrace between Wildcat and Yonder Roads, southwest of Frankfort. The limestone building (1870, south wing 1896) is on the National Register of Historic Places. Some schools changed their name over the years.īarrett was the county’s first school district, organized in 1858. Today only a few schoolhouses are still standing at their original locations. Eventually better transportation made school consolidation possible. The county once had over 100 rural schools. Re-enactment at Game Fork School, Waterville

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