Spotlight: Frozen in Time
Students stand in the formal garden between Parks Hall and Russell Auditorium,“frozen” in time during Milledgeville’s snow storm of 1967. The formal garden was constructed in 1932 over the site of the college’s main building.
The main building was built in 1890 as the college’s first structure and served as administrative offices and classroom space until it burned down in 1924.
The space was then utilized as an unpaved parking area until the construction of the formal garden, but a cornerstone of the main building remained throughout the years (and can be seen to this day) as a symbol of Georgia College’s earliest roots.
In 1967, the college (which was then the Women’s College of Georgia) underwent yet another name change and became Georgia College at Milledgeville.
In the fall of that same year, the women of the college were surprised to find male students joining their ranks. The first influx of men incorporated 185 individuals into the existing student body of 1,216 women.
Posted by Hilary Thompson
on Jan 27 2011. Filed under Features, Spotlight.
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