Forsyth Female Collegiate Institute

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The Forsyth Female Collegiate Institute was founded in Monroe County in 1849 and later became Tift College. In 1986 the school merged with Mercer University in Macon.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #mnr079.

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