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Profile: Macon County

Year Minimum Foundation building program completed
1958.

Ideal Modern Elementary was completed in March 1958, in time, apparently, to be used for some of that school year. The March 27, 1958 Macon County Citizen and Montezuma Georgian said it would be six or so more weeks until the new Macon County Training (Montezuma) and Lamson-Richardson (Marshallville) buildings were ready.

The new buildings, plus an older one at Oglethorpe, enabled Macon County to consolidate its plethora of Black schools. The program might could have started sooner, but the white high schools at Oglethorpe and Montezuma were feuding over consolidation. The two were combined for the 1959-60 school term.

Year of total integration
?

D.F. Douglass kept its high school for nearly 30 years beyond the total integration of nearly every other system.

In 1970, the federal courts described Macon County as a "special situation" according to the July 23, 1970 Macon County Citizen and Montezuma Georgian, because it is a majority-minority county.

Known high schools
  • D.F. Douglass (Montezuma)
  • Flint River Farms (eastern Macon County)
  • Lamson-Richardson (Marshallville)
  • Macon County Training (Montezuma)

The new building for Macon County Training consolidated the high schools of itself and Lamson-Richardson and Flint River Farms. Macon County Training changed its name to D.F. Douglass in 1962.

Known schools
  • 1948-49: Flint River Farms, Lamson-Richardson, Macon County Training, Oglethorpe Rosenwald, Williams Chapel
  • 1949-50: Flint River Farms, Macon County Training
  • 1950-51: Flint River Farms
  • 1951-52: Barron's Lane, Brown's Chapel, Chastain, Culpepper, Felton Chapel, Flint River Farms, Forbes-McKenzie, Garden Valley, Glorious Hope, Grangerville, Hicks Mill, Ideal, Lamson-Richardson, Macon County Training, Mount Carmel, Oglethorpe, Red Oak, St. Louis, St. Paul, Shady Grove, Sunny Dell, Wilber Hall, Zion Grove (possibly a full list, from survey report)
  • 1952-53: Flint River Farms, Ideal Colored Grammar, Macon County Training, Oglethorpe Elementary
  • 1953-54: Barron's Lane, Culpepper, Felton Chapel, Flint River Farms, Forbes McKenzie, Garden Valley, Hicks' Mill, Ideal Grammar, Lamson-Richardson, Oglethorpe Grammar, Macon County Training, Red Oak, St. Louis, St. Paul, Wilbur Hall, Zion Grove
  • 1954-55: Barron's Lane (2 teachers), Culpepper (1), Felton Chapel (1), Flint River Farms (12, plus one vacancy), Forbes-McKenzie (1), Garden Valley (2), Hick's Mill (1), Ideal Junior High (8), Lamson-Richardson (8), Macon County Training (14), Oglethorpe Grammar (10), Red Oak (1), St. Louis (1), St. Paul (1), Wilbur Hall (1), Zion Grove (1) (full list)
  • 1955-56: Barron's Lane (1 teacher), Culpepper (1), Felton's Chapel (1), Flint River Farms (14), Forbes-McKenzie (1), Garden Valley (2), Hicks' Mill (1), Ideal Junior High (8), Lamson-Richardson (7), Macon County Training (13), Oglethorpe Grammar (10), Red Oak (1), St. Louis (1), St. Paul (1), Wilbur Hall (1), Zion Grove (1) (full list)
  • 1956-57: Felton Chapel (1 teacher), Flint River Farms (13), Forbes-McKenzie (1), Garden Valley (1), Hicks' Mill (1), Ideal Junior High (8), Lamson-Richardson (9), Macon County Training (16), Oglethorpe Grammar (10), Red Oak (1), St. Paul (1), Wilbur Hall (1) (full list)
  • 1957-58: Felton Chapel (1 teacher), Flint River Farms (14), Garden Valley (2), Hicks Mill (1), Ideal Junior High (8), Lamson-Richardson (12), Macon County Training (15, plus one vacancy), Oglethorpe Grammar (10), Red Oak (1) (full list, some changes from DOE list)
  • 1958-59: Ideal labeled as Ideal Modern Elementary
The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57.
  • 1956-57: Flint River Farms (grades 1-12), Ideal (1-8), Lamson-Richardson (1-12), Macon County Training (1-12), Oglethorpe (1-8). Not a complete list. See above.
  • 1957-58: Felton Chapel (grades 1-7), Flint River Farms (1-12), Garden Valley (1-3), Hicks Mill (1-7), Ideal (1-8), Lamson-Richardson (1-12), Macon County Training (1-12), Oglethorpe (1-8). Red Oak listed in Macon County Georgian, but not on this list.
  • 1958-59: D.F. Douglass (grades 1-3, 9-12), Flint River Farms (1-8), Ideal Modern (1-8), Lamson-Richardson (1-8), Macon County Training (3-8), Oglethorpe (1-8)
  • 1959-60: D.F. Douglass (grades 1-3, 9-12), Flint River Farms (1-8), Ideal Modern (1-8), Lamson-Richardson (1-8), Macon County Training (3-8), Oglethorpe (1-8)
  • 1960-61: D.F. Douglass Elementary (grades 1-2), D.F. Douglass High (9-12), Flint River Farms (1-8), Ideal (1-8), Lamson-Richardson (1-8), Macon County Training (3-8), Oglethorpe (1-8)
  • 1961-62: D.F. Douglass Elementary (grades 1-2), D.F. Douglass High (9-12), Flint River Farms (1-8), Ideal Modern (1-8), Lamson-Richardson (1-8), Macon County Training (1-8), Oglethorpe (1-8)
  • 1962-63: D.F. Douglass Elementary (grades 1-2), D.F. Douglass High (9-12), Flint River Farms (1-8), Ideal Modern (1-8), Lamson-Richardson (1-8), Macon County Training (3-8), Oglethorpe (1-8)
  • 1963-64: D.F. Douglass Elementary (grades 1-2), D.F. Douglass High (9-12), Flint River Farms (1-8), Ideal Modern (1-8), Lamson-Richardson (1-8), Macon County Training (3-8), Oglethorpe (1-8)
  • 1964-65: D.F. Douglass Elementary (grades 1-2), D.F. Douglass High (9-12), Flint River Farms (1-8), Ideal Modern (1-8), Lamson-Richardson (1-8), Macon County Training (3-8), Oglethorpe (1-8)
  • 1965-66: D.F. Douglass Elementary (grades 1-2), D.F. Douglass High (9-12), Flint River Farms (1-8), Ideal Modern (1-8), Lamson-Richardson (1-8), Macon County Training (3-8), Oglethorpe (1-8)
  • 1966-67: D.F. Douglass Elementary (grades 1-5), D.F. Douglass High (9-12), Ideal Modern (1-8), Lamson-Richardson (1-8), Macon County Training (6-8), Oglethorpe (1-8)
  • 1967-68: D.F. Douglass Elementary (grades 1-5), D.F. Douglass High (9-12), Ideal Modern (1-8), Lamson-Richardson (1-8), Macon County Training (6-8), Oglethorpe (1-8)
  • 1968-69: D.F. Douglass Elementary (grades 1-5), D.F. Douglass High (9-12), Ideal Modern (1-8), Lamson-Richardson (1-8), Macon County Training (6-8), Oglethorpe (1-8)
  • 1969-70: D.F. Douglass Elementary (grades 1-5), D.F. Douglass High (9-12), Ideal Modern (1-8), Lamson-Richardson (1-8), Macon County Training (6-8), Oglethorpe (1-8)
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