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Profile: Turner County

Year Minimum Foundation building program completed
1957.

Completely new building for Eureka, which became Turner County's sole African American school.

Year of total integration
1970.

Eureka became Turner County Junior High, grades 5-9.

Known high schools
  • Eureka (Ashburn)
  • Sycamore

School surveys included in Robert L. Cousins papers at the Georgia Archives has Sycamore listed as grades 1-11 in 1946-47. Fourteen were on roll for grades 8-11.

Known schools
  • 1932-33: Eureka (grades 1-9)
  • Mid-1940s*: Deep Creek (2 teachers, grades 1-7), Inaha (1, 1-7), Luke (2, 1-7)
  • 1946-47: Coverdale (3 teachers, grades 1-7), Eureka (1-11), Inaha (1, 1-7), Rebecca (1, 1-7), Sibley (2, 1-7), Sycamore (4, 1-11)
  • 1950-51: Eureka
  • 1951-52: Antioch, Eureka, Luke, [Rebecca], [Sycamore]
  • 1952-53: Coverdale, Eureka, Inaha, Sycamore
  • 1955-56: Eureka (1-12)
  • 1956-57: Euerka, Rebecca (3 teachers, grades 1-5)
The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57.
  • 1956-57: Eureka (grades 1-12), Sycamore (1-7). Not a complete list.
  • 1957-58: Eureka (grades 1-12)
  • 1958-59: Eureka (grades 1-12)
  • 1959-60: Eureka (grades 1-12)
  • 1960-61: Eureka (grades 1-12)
  • 1961-62: Eureka (grades 1-12)
  • 1962-63: Eureka (grades 1-12)
  • 1963-64: Eureka (grades 1-12)
  • 1964-65: Eureka (grades 1-12)
  • 1965-66: Eureka (grades 1-12)
  • 1966-67: Eureka (grades 1-12)
  • 1967-68: Eureka (grades 1-12)
  • 1968-69: Eureka (grades 1-12)
  • 1969-70: Eureka (grades 1-12)

    * No year was marked on school surveys, but are c. 1945.

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