The First Academy of Richmond County

The First Academy of Richmond County is a Georgia historical marker in Richmond County, dedicated 1954.

At the intersection of 4th Street and Reynolds Street, on the left when traveling north on 4th Street in Augusta.

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One block east on Bay Street was opened as a boys' classical school on April 12, 1785. Here President George Washington attended examinations in 1791. The buildings housed the General Assembly of Georgia when Augusta was the capital, the Federal District and Circuit Courts, the county Superior and Inferior courts and the Masonic Lodge Columbia. In 1798 the school was closed because of a lack of money and the dilapidation of the buildings. It was reopened in 1802 on Telfair Street. Thence, it was removed to Baker Avenue in 1926.

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1776 · A General Map of the Southern British Colonies, in America. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1778 · Parte Orientale della Florida, della Giorgia, e Carolina Meridionale. Fogl. XI (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1794 · Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1795 · State of South Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

State of South Carolina, 1795, covering the location of The First Academy of Richmond County, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — State of South Carolina, 1795, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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