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People / Schools / Women's History

Anne Brumby, Superintendent of Polk County Schools

March 8, 2022

Miss Anne Brumby, Superintendent of Polk County schools, was educated in the public schools of Cedartown, the Samuel Benedict Memorial School, the Georgia State College for Women, Emory […]

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People / Schools

Robert Anderson Bryant, Cedartown Educator

February 23, 2022February 23, 2022

The Cedartown Standard, October 21, 1976 One of Cedartown’s most valued and respected citizens is Robert Anderson Bryant, principal of Cedar Hill High School from 1940 until his […]

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1950s / Clubs / Schools

A Jaycee Education Progress Report on Education in Cedartown and Polk County

February 17, 2022February 17, 2022

** THIS UNEDITED DOCUMENT WAS WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED IN 1953 ** When the new addition to the Elm Street School in Rockmart is completed sometime in the late […]

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People / Schools / Sports

Escue & Alice Rodgers

February 3, 2022

Content provided by Alice W. Rodgers, The Heritage of Polk County Georgia, 2000 Escue Rodgers, born in Piedmont, Alabama, came to Cedartown in 1945 to teach math and […]

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People / Schools

Remembering Cedar Hill

February 1, 2022February 1, 2022

Article by Janice Dobbins Laster The Georgia Legislature granted a charter for a public school system in Cedartown during the 1886-1887 session. Subsequently, the first school for blacks […]

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Schools

Cedartown Public Schools

March 17, 2021

* Article written in 1950 * In 1887, the Georgia Legislature passed a bill providing for public schools in Polk County. At that time Polk County’s representatives were […]

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