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Profile: Bryan County

Year Minimum Foundation building program completed
?

Few details have surfaced about Bryan's school-building program in the busy 1950s. Based on the number of big building projects in the 1960s, the county probably did very little in the 1950s via the State School Building Authority.

Pembroke did get a significant new addition in 1965, which was dedicated on April 25, according to the April 22 Pembroke Journal of that year. Bryan County High had an addition open three months earlier.

The addition to Pembroke was to an older brick building. When that building was erected is unsure, but judging by its outer appearance, pre-dates the 1950s.

White Richmond Hill burned in 1961, with a new building finished in 1963.

Carver School, located southeast of Richmond Hill, probably got very little in the 1950s. It was a small school, plus the plant stayed on its historic site. Both it and Pembroke got modern gyms within a decade.

Year of total integration
1970.

Known high schools
  • Carver (Richmond Hill)
  • Pembroke
With Fort Stewart then as now essentially splitting Bryan County in half, there was probably little to no consideration of combining the two.

Known schools
  • 1944-45: Mill Creek, Pembroke
  • 1945-46: Carver
  • 1946-47: George Washington Carver, Mill Creek, Pembroke
  • 1952-53: George Washington Carver, (11 teachers, 10 grades), Mill Creek (4, 4 grades), Pembroke (9, 10 grades) (full list according to faculty list released in Aug. 28, 1952 Pembroke Journal)
  • 1953-54: George Washington Carver (11 teachers), Mill Creek, Pembroke
  • 1954-55: George Washington Carver (9 teachers, with two vacancies), Mill Creek (4), Pembroke (9) (full list)
  • 1955-56: George Washington Carver, Mill Creek, Pembroke (full list)
The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57.
  • 1956-57: George Washington Carver (grades 1-12), Mill Creek Elementary (1-6), Pembroke High (1-12). The Georgia Educational Directory said Bryan's list was not complete, but it likely was.
  • 1957-58: George W. Carver High (grades 1-12), Mill Creek (1-6), Pembroke High (1-12)
  • 1958-59: George W. Carver High (grades 1-12), Mill Creek (1-6), Pembroke High (1-12)
  • 1959-60: George W. Carver High (grades 1-12), Mill Creek (1-6), Pembroke High (1-12)
  • 1960-61: George W. Carver High (grades 1-12), Mill Creek (1-6), Pembroke High (1-12)
  • 1961-62: George W. Carver High (grades 1-12), Mill Creek (1-6), Pembroke High (1-12)
  • 1962-63: George W. Carver High (grades 1-12), Mill Creek (1-6), Pembroke High (1-12)
  • 1963-64: George W. Carver High (grades 1-12), Mill Creek (1-5), Pembroke High (1-12)
  • 1964-65: George W. Carver High (grade 1-12), Mill Creek (1-5), Pembroke High (1-12)
  • 1965-66:The Educational Directory omitted Bryan's African American schools. Carver and Pembroke were definitely open, but Mill Creek's status is unknown*
  • 1966-67: George Washington Carver Elementary and High (grades 1-12), Pembroke Elementary and High (1-12)
  • 1967-68: George Washington Carver Elementary and High (grades 1-12), Pembroke Elementary and High (1-12)
  • 1968-69: George Washington Carver Elementary and High (grades 1-12), Pembroke Elementary and High (1-12)
  • 1969-70: George Washington Carver Elementary (grades 1-7), Pembroke Elementary and High (1-11)

* Mill Creek likely closed in 1965. Though no announcement was ever made in The Pembroke Journal, the paper did not include Mill Creek that spring on the list of reelected teachers.

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