HISTORIC CAVE SPRING, GA

 Joyce Perdue-Smith is one of the members of the Fairview Glee Club, non-profit organization,  driving the restoration of this historical school for black children.  In a short documentary on YouTube (see link below), she introduces the history of the Rosenwald School in Cave Spring, Georgia, gives the history of Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald and the building of 5300 schools across the U.S. South. 

"We invite you to become a part of the legacy as we ensure the restoration and listing of Fairview and E.S. Brown schools to the National Historical Registry, as well as, design and develop a permanent exhibit of museum-like quality.: 

https://youtu.be/k0O1sXYQtXo

 http://fairviewbrown.org/index.html 

THE HISTORY of the CIVIL WAR in CAVE SPRING

Located seventeen miles southwest of Rome, the scenic small town of Cave Spring contains over 90 (ninety) structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  

In October of 1864, after the fall of Atlanta, Cave Spring was the headquarters of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. It was here that General John Bell Hood met with General Beauregard to discuss future plans. The result of this meeting was the disastrous campaign that sealed the fate of the Southern Confederacy on the bloodstained fields of Franklin and Nashville, Tennessee.

Fannin Hall, the original administration building of the Georgia School for the Deaf, was used as a hospital and it was here that Missouri boys of the famous “Orphan Brigade” were treated following the battle at Allatoona Pass. Ironically, many of these were the same soldiers that defended Fort Attaway in the action at Howe’s Hill just a few months before.

AND: Employees working at City Hall nowadays still swear that they hear doors closing and other unexplained noises when nobody else in the building.