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 […]
People / Schools
Robert Anderson Bryant, Cedartown Educator
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 […]
1950s / Clubs / Schools
A Jaycee Education Progress Report on Education in Cedartown and Polk County
** 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 […]
People / Schools / Sports
Escue & Alice Rodgers
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 […]
People / Schools
Remembering Cedar Hill
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 […]
Schools
Cedartown Public Schools
* 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 […]