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About Washington On January 23, 1780, in the midst of the hard and bitter fighting of the Revolution, the Executive Council ordered the town laid out in Wilkes County, Georgia. The council specified that it was to be called Washington, making this the first town in the United States named for George Washington. The town was confirmed by the Commander-in-Chief of the American armies, as the first city chartered in his name, on his visit to Georgia in 1791.  Washington, Georgia, is located in Wilkes County, 100 miles east of Atlanta, between Athens and Augusta.   As of the census of 2000, there were 4,295 people, 1,778 households, and 1,162 families residing in the city. The population density was 547.5 people per square mile. There were 1,974 housing units at an average density of 251.6 per square mile.    The city of Washington claims to be first in many historical events: First city in the nation to be established in the name of George Washington, ...

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Morehouse College Receives $4.6 Million to Create an Endowed Student Scholarship Date Released: April 9, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 9, 2019 Contact: D. Aileen Dodd, Senior Media and Public Relations Manager, 404-808-5428; aileen.dodd@morehouse.edu ATLANTA— Morehouse College has received a $4.6 million donation to establish the Eugene McGowan Jr. endowed scholarship as the college strives to become one of the nation’s top liberal arts schools. The donation, the largest of the year, was made by the estate of the late Dr. Eugene McGowan Jr., an alumnus who graduated in 1937. McGowan, a prominent Delaware psychologist and former Atlanta Public Schools teacher, supports Morehouse’s mission to educate men who are committed to service, leadership, and academic excellence. Morehouse’s Office of Institutional Advancement accepted the gift on behalf of the College. The donation is the second major gift issued by a philanthropist in recent m...

Harriet Powers (1837-1910) Maternal Relation Original entry by Ashley Callahan , Georgia Museum of Art,  04/06/2005 Last edited by NGE Staff on 10/01/2018 Harriet Powers is one of the best-known southern African American  quilt makers , even though only two of her quilts, both of which she made after the  Civil War  (1861-65), survive today. One is part of the National Museum of American History collection at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The second quilt is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. The  cotton  quilts consist of numerous pictorial squares depicting biblical scenes and celestial phenomena. They were constructed through applique and piecework and were hand and machine stitched. Powers was born into  slavery  near  Athens  on October 29, 1837, and lived more than half her life in  Clarke County , mainly in Sandy Creek and Buck Branch. The first of t...

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Dr. Silas Norman  The family of Dr. Silas Norman has released the following arrangements: VISITATION HOURS Friday, July 24, 2015 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm Swanson Funeral Home (Northwest), 14751 West McNichols (6 Mile Road) Detroit, MI (313-272-9000). There will be a family hour service from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. FUNERAL SERVICES Saturday, July 25, 2015 Family hour and processional begins at 9:00 am Service begins at 9:30 am Hartford Memorial Baptist Church 18700 James Couzens Fwy Detroit, MI In lieu of flowers, contributions should be made out to: Paine College or the Black Medical Students Association and mailed to: Dr. Joseph Norman (son) 1320 Algonac Ann Arbor MI, 48103 Bio of Dr. Silas Norman, Jr. Silas Norman, Jr. was born on May 25, 1941 in Augusta, GA to the late Silas Norman, Sr. and Janie Mae King. Some members of his mother’s family settled in Albany, Georgia and their descendants were active in the Albany Movement. His mother instilled in him such a love of l...

Claude Bernhard Dansby    husband of 1st cousin 1x removed of 3rd cousin 1x removed 13  Ψ  1922, Morehouse class of 1922 Chair of Mathematics, Morehouse College Born : September 19, 1897  Died :  June 20, 19 73   When Claude Bernhardt Dansby was born on September 19, 1897, in LaGrange, Georgia, his father, Burrell Wilkinson, was 29 and his mother, Virginia, " Jennie" Ray was 28. His father died when he was young and his mother remarried to Joe Dansby. He married LILLIAN HEARD on September 6, 1924, in New York City, New York. They had two children during their marriage. He died on June 20, 1973, in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of 75, and was buried there. The following tribute given by Hugh Gloster (‘31)President of Morehouse College from 1967–1987, was read at Claude Dansby’s funeral on June 22, 1973, at Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta. In the fall of 1914, a thin seventeen-year-old lad, Claude B. Dansby, walked across two Georg...