Site of the Home and Private School of Adiel Sherwood
Site of the home and private school of Adiel Sherwood 1832-1836
Author, Educator, Gospel Minister, Founder state Temperance Society, Citizen of the Commonwealth for about thirty years.
Born Fort Edward, New York, Oct. 3, 1791
Died St. Louis, Missouri, Aug. 18, 1879
In 1828 began to teach ministerial students. The Eatonton Baptist Church offering to pay the students board. Thus began ministerial education that inspired the founding of Mercer University.
Marker is at the intersection of Madison Road (U.S. 441) and Sherwood Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Madison Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
