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Vineville Baptist Church is a church in Macon, Georgia.Its sister church is Vineville North Baptist Church, founded as a mission of Vineville Baptist Church. [1]In 1963, the church, under Pastor Dr. Walter L. Moore [2] accepted Ghanaian student Sam Oni at a time when the church and others in the state would not accept an American black man, arguing that he was different from the "American negro".
Mount Lebanon Baptist Church. / 32.50256°N 93.05167°W / 32.50256; -93.05167. Mount Lebanon Baptist Church is a historic church on Louisiana Highway 154, about 260 yards (240 m) west of intersection with Louisiana Highway 517, in Bienville Parish. It was built in 1857 in a Greek Revival style and was added to the National Register in ...
Campus. 235 acres (95 ha) Georgia Baptist College was a private grade school and college in Macon, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1899 as Central City College and was renamed in 1938. It closed due to financial difficulties in 1956. The idea for the school arose in the 1890s due to disagreements between some African American Baptists ...
Mount de Sales Academy. Mount de Sales Academy (MDS) is a Catholic, independent, college preparatory school in Macon, Georgia. It was originally founded in 1876 by five Sisters of Mercy, an order of nuns, as a boarding school for girls. [1] It is the oldest independent school in Middle Georgia and the first to racially integrate. [2]
Macon (/ ˈ m eɪ k ən / MAY-kən), officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in Georgia, United States. Situated near the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is 85 miles (137 km) southeast of Atlanta and near the state's geographic center—hence its nickname "The Heart of Georgia". Macon's population was 157,346 in the ...
May 22, 1996 [1] St. Peter Claver Catholic Church at 131 Ward Street. The Pleasant Hill Historic District is a historic neighborhood in Macon, Georgia, and has been known as an African American community. [2] It is bound by Madison Street, north of Vineville Avenue, east of Rogers Avenue, and south of Neal Avenue. [2]
The institution, originally known as Middle Georgia State College, was founded in 2013 through the merger of Middle Georgia College and Macon State College. Through these legacy institutions, Middle Georgia State University traces its history to 1884. In 2015, the institution adopted its current name to reflect its elevation to state university ...
The Union Baptist Institute, chartered April 28, 1904, joined with other Baptist associations, with Rev. Brewton as elected president of its board of trustees. [ 4 ] The co-ed Union Baptist Institute formally opened on September 12, 1905 with a four-building campus, serving 160 students in grades one through eleven.