Andrew College

Cuthbert is the site of Andrew College, founded in January 1854 and named in honor of Bishop James O. Andrew, whose refusal to free his wife’s slaves separated the Northern and Southern Methodist Episcopal Churches in 1844. Its first president was Augustus Alden of Yale, a pioneer in Georgia for higher education. It was the second college chartered to confer graduate degrees upon women, served as a Confederate hospital from 1863 to 1865, and in 1867 became the first women’s college in the South to include physical education in its curriculum. Today it is a fully accredited junior college that has upheld throughout a century the highest principles of educated, Christian womanhood.

Cuthbert, Georgia · United States