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College Park is Georgia's fourth largest urban Historic District.
There are 606 acres and 853 properties listed on the National Register
of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. This
totally planned community was originally established in 1890 as
the city of Manchester, a manufacturing town. In 1895, Cox College
and Conservatory, also known as Southern Female College, moved to
Manchester from LaGrange, Georgia. A year later in 1896, the town
was renamed College Park since it was not only the home of Cox College,
but also Southern Military Academy. The new name was actually a
result of contest held by city officials. Lula Roper not only had
her submitted name chosen, but also received a choice lot! |
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Cox
College closed in 1923, but then reopened in 1932 as a girl's finishing
school. The school finally closed in 1938 and the property was sold
to the city of College Park and the Fulton County Board of Education.
Today, several structures including College Park City Hall, the
city auditorium, public library and McClarin High School reside
on the old Cox College property. |
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For
several years College Park provided an academic community for both
colleges, but in 1897 Southern Military Academy was sold, but reopened
as Georgia Military Academy in 1900. The school was mainly a boy's
boarding school until 1964 when the first female was admitted. The
military program was dropped two years later and in 1966 it was
renamed Woodward Academy.
The boarding program was discontinued in 1993. Woodward Academy,
remains to this day as the largest private college preparatory school
in the contiguous 48 states with over 2,900 student on three campuses
including the main campus in College Park and two satellite campuses
in Riverdale and Duluth. |
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