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Berry College is a private university in the Mount Berry community adjacent to Rome, Georgia. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Berry College was founded on values based on Christian principles in 1902 by Martha Berry .
Mount Berry is an unincorporated community [1] contiguous with the main campus of Berry College in Floyd County, Georgia, United States, bordering the city of Rome. Mount Berry Mall, the shopping mall serving Rome, is in the Mount Berry area. It is part of the Rome, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area. The ZIP Code for Mount Berry is 30149.
Martha Berry died in 1942 and the schools were faced with several years of transition. The Martha Berry School for Girls closed at the end of the 1955–1956 academic year. The boys' high school was renamed Mount Berry School for Boys, and in 1962 it became Berry Academy, which was closed in 1983 when Berry College incorporated.
Dr. Dickey, Ouida, Berry College: A History, University of Georgia Press, (2005), ISBN 0-8203-2758-1; Berry Trails: An Historic and Contemporary Guide to Berry College, Berry College, (2001) Blackburn, Joyce, Martha Berry: A Woman of Courageous Spirit and Bold Dreams: A Biography, Peachtree Publishers (September 1992), ISBN 1-56145-071-5.
East Georgia State College: Swainsboro: Four-year state college 227 acres (0.92 km 2) Georgia Gwinnett College: Lawrenceville: Four-year state college 250 acres (1.0 km 2) Georgia Highlands College: Rome: Four-year state college 200 acres (0.81 km 2) Gordon State College: Barnesville: Four-year state college 125 acres (0.51 km 2) South Georgia ...
The 2024 Berry Vikings football team represented Berry College as a member of the Southern Athletic Association (SAA) during the 2024 NCAA Division III football season. The Spartans, led by 12th-year head coach Tony Kunczewski , played their home games at Valhalla Stadium in Mount Berry, Georgia .
One of the classrooms was renovated by the Berry College Student Government Association as a Mountain Day American Bicentennial project in 1976. Student interest in Possum Trot has remained high over the years, and in 1984-85 and 1985–86, the Student Government Association assisted through volunteer work in the full restoration of the buildings.
Retreat Center, Rome, Georgia. WinShape Center is located near the hilltop campus of Berry College and more specifically at the adjacent former middle and high school campus of the Berry Academy. Once owned by Martha Berry, the site had once been home to a dairy farm with buildings originally constructed in the architectural style of Normandy ...