Archery, a rural Georgia community established in the 1800s, included a train stop, houses for railroad employees, Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, a school for black youth, and a store. Its name came from the Sublime Order of Archery, a relief organization of the A.M.E. Church that assisted southern black families. Two permanent white families, the Watsons and the Carters, lived there, while the other 25 families were African-American. Edward Herman Watson served as the Seaboard Railroad section foreman, and James Earl Carter, Sr., father of Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, also lived there, where Jimmy Carter spent his youth. William Decker Johnson, a bishop of the A.M.E. Church, became Archery’s most prominent person after coming to establish a school for black youth who lacked educational resources. The Johnson Home Industrial College opened in 1912 and offered technical classes to help students obtain jobs, along with primary, high school, collegiate, and vocational instruction for male and female students. Johnson’s educational work drew many faithful supporters and helped the school flourish, and he is buried in the Saint Mark A.M.E. Church cemetery.