Honoring 'The Fabulous Fifty'

Historical marker celebrates founding of Georgia Southern

The Bulloch County Historical Society installs the latest historical marker on the McTell Trail in downtown Statesboro Friday to commemorate the 50 citizens who helped secure a bid in 1906 for the First District Agriculture and Mechanical School that eventually became Georgia Southern University.

100413 HISTORICAL MARKER 01 — The Bulloch County Historical Society installs the latest historical marker on the McTell Trail in downtown Statesboro Friday to commemorate the 50 citizens who helped secure a bid in 1906 for the First District Agriculture and Mechanical School that eventually became Georgia Southern University.

On a winter day in 1906, a group composed of some of Bulloch County's most prominent citizens boarded a train and traveled east, to Savannah, with one goal in mind. The delegation of 50, all pillars in the local community — doctors, lawyers, business leaders, elected officials — were en route to the port city to win rights to host the First District Agricultural and Mechanical School. More than a few delegations — from surrounding communities such as Claxton, Waynesboro and Stillmore — filled the DeSoto Hotel to stake their own claims, but the Bulloch contingent won out.

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