Lewis High School (Macon, Georgia)

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Lewis High School was a school serving African American students in Macon, Georgia. Organized and funded by the American Missionary Association,^[1] it was named for General John Randolph Lewis|John R. Lewis, the leader of the Freedmen's Bureau in Georgia.^[2]

William Sanders Scarborough attended the school and returned to teach at it. He also met his wife at the school, she was a teacher.^[3]

The school was destroyed by arsonists in 1876.^[2] It was rebuilt. It was training teachers by 1884.^[4] It became Lewis Normal Institute in 1885 and Ballard Normal School in 1888 for donor Stephen Ballard.^[5] His support helped fund a new building constructed for it in 1889 as well as a dormitory for girls funded by his sister.^[6]

The school was relocated to a new alnost 5-acre campus in 1916 after the city purchased the existing sited for an expansion of a hospital.^[2][6] By 1923 it was accredited by the Georgia Department of Education. It became a public high school in 1942. In 1949 the school district discontinued use of the school building and it was sold for use as a community center in 1950.^[2]

Principals[edit]

• Christine Gilbert (1880-1882)
• W. A. Hodge
• Livia A. Shae (1887)
• Julia B. Ford (1893)
• Francis T. Waters (1894)
• George C. Burrage (1895)
• Frank B. Stevens (1909).
• Raymond G. Von Tobel (1911 - 1935, when he died in a car crash)
• Lewis Mounts (acting principal)
• James A. Colston (1938 - 1943, he left.to become president of Bethune-Cookman College), the school's first African American principal
• Riago Martin (1944)^[2]

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