The First Academy of Richmond County
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One block east on Bay Street was opened as a
boys' classicial school on April 12, 1785. Here
President George Washington attended
examinations in 1791. The buildings housed the
General Assembly of Georgia when Augusta
was the capital, the Federal District and Circuit
Courts, the county Superior and Inferior courts
and the Masonic Lodge Columbia.
In 1798 the school was closed because of a lack
of money and the delapidation of the buildings.
It was reopened in 1802 on Telfair Street. Thence,
it was removed to Baker Avenue in 1926.
Marker is at the intersection of 4th Street and Reynolds Street, on the left when traveling north on 4th Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
