Educated Name Droppers
This teacher served for 31 years in Education since 1910, and had a school named after them in 1943 after resigning as principal at the Tifton Grammar School.
Who is Annie Belle Clark?
Beginning as a bypass around Tifton to relieve traffic congestion from US Highway 41, the federal government took over the project after President Eisenhower signed the bill launching the interstate highway system.
What is I-75?
Tift, Ritz, Towne, Pines Drive-In, Marbro Drive-In, Hi-Way 82 Drive-In, Carmike Cinema 6.
What are theaters in Tifton?
Built in 1913, to house the Tifton Judicial Circuit, this is the only Beaux Arts architectural style building in Tifton. Originally it had graceful palm trees planted across the front lawn.
What is the Tift County Courthouse?
Known as the Second oldest church in Tifton, this church was built in 1898 and consecrated in 1902 by Bishop Nelson.
What is St. Anne's Episcopal Church/Chapel?
This teacher was the Tifton High School Band Director and had a school named after him in 1963, creating one of the 13 schools in Tift County.
Who is Len Lastinger?
In the U.S. state of Georgia it is a 232-mile-long U.S. Highway. It travels from the Chattahoochee River at Georgetown to its eastern end, southwest of Brunswick.
What is US Highway 82?
Founded in 1976 to preserve the history of Georgia agriculture, it began as a small initiative to preserve the first mobile peanut combine, and grew to 95 acres of buildings, artifacts, gardens, and exhibits to showcase the past, present, and future of Georgia’s number one industry.
What is the Georgia Agriculture Museum, formerly the Agrirama?
Built upon the foundation of the Hotel Sadie which was destroyed by fire in 1905, this building served as a renowned hotel for many years and has been renovated to house Tifton’s city government offices.
What is the Hotel Myon?
Officially established by the State Mission Board in 1889, this church lasted until 1894 due to a fire, was rebuilt as a brick building in 1895, and expanded over the years.
What is the First Baptist Church of Tifton?
Known as the high school for African-Americans, this school was opened from 1958-1968 and housed students from grades 8th to 11th until all schools were integrated in 1969 following the desegregation in the United States.
What is Matt Wilson School?
In the state of Georgia it travels 387 miles from the Florida state line southeast of Lake Park to the Tennessee state line south of East Ridge, Tennessee. Before the creation of I-75, it was a major artery for seasonal travel for people up north vacationing in Florida.
What is US Highway 41?
Syd Blackmarr Arts Center, The Plough Gallery, Tifton Terminal Railway, and Tifton’s Veteran’s.
What are museums in Tifton?
Constructed in 1917 and was the Tifton High School from 1917-1962. It was used as the Tifton Jr. High School after 1962 for a few years. In 1974 was converted for use as the administrative building.
What is the Charles Kent Administrative Building?
The land for this church was purchased in 1929, but it was not until 1953 that the first mass was held in the church. It was officially consecrated in 1954 by Auxiliary Bishop Francis E. Hyland.
What is Our Divine Savior Catholic Church
This school was named after a teacher who was a principal, coach, superintendent.
Who is G.O. Bailey?
Begun in 1942 with a130 acre plot, it was used in the early 1940s to train Air Force pilots. After a period of limited use it was renovated by the Dixie Airway service and in 1961 was named after Henry Tift Myers, Sr., whose distinguished flying career included becoming the first presidential piolet for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What is the Tifton Airport?
First issued in 1888 the founder B.T. Allen helped establish the local news in Tifton, Ga. It included notices of cultural events, society happenings and comics.
What is the Tifton Gazette?
Now named the J. T. Reddick School, this school originally opened in the fall term of 1917 and took care of all african-american children in Tifton. It was rebuilt with assistance from A Rosenwald Grant in 1931.
What is the Tift County Industrial School.
This church, erected by the Methodists in 1889 and sold in 1901 to H.H. Tift, is the oldest house of worship in Tifton. It was renamed for Mr. Tift's wife.
What is the Bessie Tift Chapel?
Originally created in 1906 as the Second District Agricultural and Mechanical School it was renamed in 1933 for a signer of the US Constitution and the first president of the University of Georgia.
What is the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC)
The junction of these two railroads is where Henry Harding Tift founded his sawmill in 1872 that would become the city of Tifton in 1890.
What are the Brunswick and Albany Railroad and the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad?
From land granted by H. H. Tift to Tifton and named for his friend and local lawyer, this park has become a home for cultural events such as La Fiesta del Pueblo and the Rhythm and Ribs Festival.
What is Fullwood Park?
Until 2004, when there was a devastating fire, it was the site of the world's 2nd largest magnolia tree, measured at 61 feet high.
What is Magnolia Tree Park?
The first Black Baptist Church in Tift County, founded in 1873 and built by recently freed black men. The original church was a wooden structure located in what is now Tift Quarters.
What is the Shiloh Baptist Church?