Image Credit: North Georgia Technical College

Year Erected: 1993

Marker Text: In 1907, three local citizens, W. M. Loggans, B. B. Heyward, and W. P. Furr, donated 300 acres of farmland for the new location of the Ninth District School of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. “The A & M School," a residential high school, operated from 1908 until its closure in 1933 due to the Great Depression. Claude Purcell, Habersham County Superintendent of Schools, purchased the site from the state, and with the support of President Roosevelt’s National Youth Administration (NYA), Habersham College opened in 1938. The coeducational vocational school closed when the NYA lost funding in 1943 during World War II. However, in 1944, need for wartime workers led to the establishment of North Georgia Trade and Vocational School, located here. It was the first unit of the vocational division of the Georgia Department of Education. Today, the school is known as North Georgia Technical College, part of the Technical College System of Georgia.

Re-erected by the Georgia Historical Society in 2024