| When? |
What? |
Who? |
| 2 July 1862 |
Land Grant Act allocates lands to states for instructing agricultural
& mechanical arts |
U.S.Congress |
| 30 Aug 1890 |
Ammendment to Land Grant Act allocates $50,000 to states for "colored
students" education |
U.S.Congress |
| 26 Nov 1890 |
Act to establish school for education of "colored students" |
GA. General Assembly |
| Mar 1891 |
Savannahians Lobby for location of institution |
1st African Baptist Church |
| 13 May 1891 |
10 Acres in Savannah donated to Trustees for institution |
George Parsons |
| 30 July 1891 |
66.1 adjacent acres sold to Trustees $$6,000 |
Sara B. Postell |
| Sum 1891 |
Richard Wright appointed first President of GA State Industrial College
for Colored Youth |
Univ. of GA President |
| Oct 1891 |
College Opening Ceremony; College, Normal School, & Sub-Normal School
curriculum |
Richard Wright, Jr. |
| 1891 |
College farm established; superintendent employed |
Robert H. Thomas |
| 1891-92 |
College farm buildings constructed (Hubert site) |
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| Oct 1982 |
Mechanical Arts program estab. (woodworking; mechanical arts); director
appointed |
Albert A. Ashton |
| 1893 |
Blacksmithing, wheelwriting, masonry added to curriculum |
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| 1893-1921 |
Farmers' Conferences held annually on campus |
Richard Wright, Jr. |
| 1896 |
1st Meldrum Hall (58' x 80') constructed |
Faculty & students |
| Jun 1898 |
1st College Degree awarded to Richard R. Wright, Jr., president's son |
Richard Wright, Jr. |
| 1898-99 |
Tailoring, painting, shoemaking added to curriculum |
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| 1898-99 |
Women students first admitted to Savannah, live off campus; study
dressmaking & sewing |
Lavinia DeVaugh |
| 1900-01 |
Hill Hall constructed |
Faculty & students |
| 1902 |
College Dairy established; head employed |
F.H.Cardoza |
| 1906 |
GA State Colored Agricultural & Industrial Assn. founded; sponsors
"State Colored Fair", Macon |
Richard Wright |
| 1909 |
Leadership of dairy operations assumed by former graduate |
Jake F. Frazier |
| 1912 |
Power machinery installed in carpentry & shoemaking shops |
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| 1913 |
Concrete block laundry building constructed |
Faculty & students |
| 1913-14 |
Experimental crops of corn, cotton, oats |
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| May 1914 |
Smith Lever Act funds "Farm Demonstrator" Eugene A. Williams for
Savannah |
U.S.Government |
| Fall 1914 |
Commercial course added to curriculum (bookkeping, stenography, typing) |
G.L.Gaines |
| 1915 |
First woman student graduated from college department |
Lucrene Dixon |
| 1914-15 |
Poultry raising added to program; head appointed |
M.J.Smitherman |
| 1916 |
Annual "State Colored Fair" moves to Savannah |
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| Dec 1917 |
Meldrum Hall destroyed by fire |
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| 1918-19 |
Curriculum re-configured: grammar (3 yr), high (3 yr), normal schools (2
yr), & college (4 yr) |
Richard Wright, Jr. |
| 23 Feb 1917 |
Smith Hughes Act provides funds for Home Economics instruction |
Woodrow Wilson |
| 1918-19 |
Smith Hughes funds support instructing Home Econ & other trades at
Savannah |
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| Sum 1918 |
200 soldiers enrolled for trade training sponsored by National Army |
Webb & Bradshaw |
| 1920-26 |
2nd Meldrum Hall constructed; est. cost $100,000 |
A. Orsot & students |
| June 1921 |
President resigns, moves to Philadelphia to found a bank |
Richard Wright, Jr. |
| Oct 1921 |
11 women admitted as boarding students |
Cyrus G. Wiley |
| 1921 |
3 additional "Demonstration Agents" join college's state
agricultural headquarters |
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| 1921-- |
August "short courses" for women in home economics (cooking,
sewing, etc.) & men in agriculture |
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| 1922 |
President reorganizes curriculum into Literary, Commercial, Mechanical,
& Agricultural depts. |
Cyrus G. Wiley |
| 1922 |
4-year vocational agriculture program added to curriculum |
Alva Tabor |
| 6 Apr 1922 |
Initiate State Industrial College Night at local churches |
Cyrus G. Wiley |
| 1923 |
Auto mechanics added to curriculum |
J.G. Hollingsworth |
| May 1923 |
US Bureau of Educ inspection; concern with impoverished land-grant
function; low funding |
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| 16 Aug 1924 |
Legislature revise governance structure of institution; new board; salvage
land-grant status |
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| Aug 1926 |
President resigned; went to Morris Brown in Atlanta as Dean |
Cyrus G. Wiley |
| 1926 |
New president's slogan: "Know GA, believe in GA and build a better
GA." |
Benjamin Hubert |
| 1926-27 |
7 new faculty recruited from major universities |
Benjamin Hubert |
| 1928 |
Vocational Agriculture Program restructured; strengthened |
Thomas N. Roberts |
| 1935-42 |
Federal supported Ag. Experiments w/ sea island cotton, peanuts,
phosphaates, forestry etc. |
Frank M. Staley |
| 1938 |
First women's dormatory constructed; a WPA project |
Benjamin Hubert |
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