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Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Normal and Industrial Institute

Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Normal and Industrial Institute is a Georgia historical marker in Effingham County, dedicated 2005.

On Central Avenue, south of Floyd Avenue in Guyton.

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The Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Students was established here in 1880 by the Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Association. The school was established, organized, funded, and staffed by African Americans. The institute offered vocational classes in subjects such as carpentry and home economics. A donated printing press led to the development of a journalism program, allowing students to produce all printed materials for the Institute and the Association's newspaper, The Pilgrim Traveler. After serving the black community for over fifty years, the Institute closed in May 1936 when Effingham County built a public school for African Americans. The Institute building was later demolished.

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Historical maps covering this location

1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1879 · North And South Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Gen. map IX. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1919 · Egypt, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

North And South Carolina, 1879, covering the location of Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Normal and Industrial Institute, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — North And South Carolina, 1879, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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