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is
for the Lucy Cobb Institute.
Before
this secondary school was built, there wasn't a school for girls
in Athens. Girls had to go away to school.
When
a "mystery" letter in the newspaper pointed out that this
situation was unfair, the Lucy Cobb Institute was established in
1839.
The campus
of the Lucy Cobb is now the home of UGA's Carl Vinson Institute
of Government.
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