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McRae was founded in 1870 as station number eleven on the Macon and Brunswick Railroad. In 1871, the seat of Telfair County was transferred to McRae from Jacksonville. McRae was incorporated on March 3, 1874, and was named for a pioneering Scottish family. The community was named after Daniel M. McRae, the original owner of the town site. [5]
McRae–Helena is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia, formed on January 1, 2015, by the merger of the two cities of McRae and Helena. McRae–Helena is the county seat of Telfair County. It is the largest city in Telfair County, with a population of 6,253 in 2020. [2] This includes the population held as inmates at McRae Correctional Institution.
Telfair County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,477. [1] The largest city and county seat is McRae-Helena.
Once the Conference decided to sponsor a school that included two years of college, several towns vied for the honor of its location. At the annual conference in 1892, McRae won the vote, since it offered the best proposal and had a "high moral tone." [3] The school opened in January 1893 with 65 students. [3]
Telfair County High School is located in McRae–Helena, Georgia, United States. It is the only high school in the Telfair County School District. Its teams are known as the Trojans. It shares a campus with its feeder school, Telfair County Middle School.
The Telfair County School District is a public school district in Telfair County, Georgia, United States, based in McRae. It serves the communities of Helena, Jacksonville, Lumber City, McRae, Milan, and Scotland. First established as McRae Public School, December 16, 1897, as recorded in the Acts of the General Assembly of The State of Georgia ...
South Georgia College, also referred to as Old South Georgia College [1] was a Methodist affiliated school in McRae, Georgia.It opened in 1892. The school closed in 1928. The campus was sold to the local school district. campus and was a high school until the 1960s when it became a primary school.
Helena was a city in Telfair and Wheeler counties in the U.S. state of Georgia.The population was 2,883 at the 2010 census, up from 2,307 in 2000 and 1,256 in 1990. The population increase accompanied establishment of the McRae Correctional Institution, which provided new jobs.