Everett Springs Seminary, an antecedent of the famous Martha Berry Schools, was chartered in Floyd County in 1889 and remained in existence until 1908 as Georgia's first mountain school with boarding facilities for its students. Pupils were expected to do their own cooking and housekeeping in the little cottages surrounding the schoolhouse, and the schoolhouse and cottages were built by the Everett Springs community for the school. In 1892 Professor W. J. Moore of Tennessee was elected principal, and the following year he was reelected principal and made president of the board of trustees, while his brother Isaac Moore was elected assistant. For many years the Moore brothers ran the school and won the love and admiration of the mountain children they taught, and W. J. Moore's pupils, who met annually for a reunion at the old schoolhouse, remembered that their professor commanded such respect that a word of disapproval was often discipline enough for Everett Springs Seminary's high-spirited pupils.