Mount Meigs, AL news and local guide

In 1893 Georgia Washington, born into slavery in Virginia on November 23, 1851, and recruited by Booker T. Washington after they met at Hampton Institute, founded the People's Village School for Black students at Mount Meigs; enrollment grew from four to 100 in its first year. She retired in 1936 after 43 years, a new building named Georgia Washington School was dedicated in February 1950, and she died on October 5, 1952, and is buried on the school grounds. Mount Meigs is also home to state institutions. The Alabama Industrial School opened here in 1911 as a reform school for Black youths and is now the Mount Meigs Campus of the Alabama Department of Youth Services, and the state's Kilby Correctional Facility serves as the receiving center for all male state inmates. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Georgia Washington School (East Montgomery County Historical Society and the Alabama Historical Association) Wikipedia: Mount Meigs, Alabama