Maysville Institute
Maysville, Georgia

Established 1878
Home Schools Academic Year 1892-1893 Academic Year 1901-1902  

 

Maysville (GA) Institute
The former Maysville Institute still stands today at 7 Comer Street in Maysville.  It is now a private residence.

The Maysville Institute
Maysville’s first school building was built in 1878 and is still standing at 7 Comer Street. It was a two-room schoolhouse with large heaters in the center of each room. The first principal was Capt. Thomas A. E. Evans from Albany GA. Tuition was charged to attend the school.

The Maysville Institute was listed in the 1883 American Collegiate Directory and Universal Catalogue under "public schools."  (Ref: digitized book on Google)

 

 

1885-1886 Maysville GA School   (photo courtesy of Melanie K. Gibbs)

Margaret "Margie" Alexander Comer (1867-1926), daughter of Dr. Manning Poole and Pillona White David Alexander, taught school at Maysville the year before she married James Thomas Comer on 5 July 1886 in Banks County.  Margie is standing next to a male teacher directly in front of the staircase leading to the second floor.  The original photo is in possession of Margie's daughter, Helen Jackson Comer (b. 1910), of Newton, NC, who at age 98, is the pride of the Bowen/David/Alexander/Comer family.

Maysville Institute enrollment figures:

Mar. 1879 (first term) 25 Thomas AE Evans, principal
Jan. 1880 40 Thomas AE Evans, principal
Mar. 1881 70 Thomas AE Evans, principal
Jan. 1882 90 JL Caldwell, principal
Feb. 1882 104 JL Caldwell, principal
Mar. 1883 90 JL Caldwell, principal
1891 125
1893 ? H. W. Wooding, principal
1896 127
1899 77

   These figures are considerable for a two-room schoolhouse.  The immediate answer to overcrowding was to move some students to temporary classrooms in a house next door and, on one occasion, the principal’s wife taught the youngest of the children at her home. 

Page last updated 09/17/2010

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