Hamilton is the president of the Bank of Vienna and is a cotton buyer and does a large stock and buggy business. Their home is one the corner of Union and Fifth Streets, and is a palatial one indeed. He has been in business in Vienna many years married Miss May Holmes and they have a lovely family of five children. Hamilton has always lived in Dooly County, reared on the farm and educated at Mercer University. Beth English shared this history from an early illustrated promotional booklet about Dooly County: J. Thanks to Brenda Ambrose Lockerman for the identification. Members of the Class of 1945 are remembered on the steps of the old shop building, including: R. A second shop building (not pictured) was built in 1959 to the right of the schoolhouse.Ī food processing/canning plant was attached to the old shop building at a later date.

An equalization school was built adjacent to the property in 1959, and the campus included all of the earlier Rosenwald structures.Ī shop building for vocational activities was built near the schoolhouse, also in 1926. However, the original cornerstone for the school identifies it as the Vienna Industrial & High School. The National Register of Historic Places listing for the school is a bit confusing, as it identifies this as the County Training School, noting the vocational focus of many schools for African-Americans at the time. It was built by Governor George Busbee’s father, who also built the nearby Lilly School. This school, which served Vienna’s African-American community before desegregation, was built in part with funds provided by the Rosenwald Fund and utilized it “Six Teacher Community School Plan”.

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