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By Lee Greenway
Digging Into One of Middle Georgia
State’s Historical Treasures
Ebenezer Hall
If anyone had any doubt as to the truth of the
old saying, “It’s a small world,” Cochran Dig into the history of Ebenezer Hall,
resident and Middle Georgia State University currently undergoing a $250,000 renovation into
alumnus Barney Hendricks could lay that doubt office and meeting spaces for the Middle Georgia
to rest. When World War II began, Hendricks – 18 State University Foundation, and one uncovers a
years old at the time – left what was then known precis of the history of central Georgia. Originally
as Middle Georgia College and volunteered for constructed in 1890, the house is the sole
service in the Army Air Corps. He was sent to surviving structure of New Ebenezer College, the
Miami, Fla., for his basic training and assigned a Baptist institution that would eventually become
roommate. When next he spoke with his mother, Middle Georgia State’s Cochran Campus.
he mentioned his new roomie’s name and got a
startled “You don’t mean it!” in response. In its 126 years, Ebenezer Hall has served as
Turns out that in the 1920s, the mother of everything from a president’s residence to an
Hendricks’ new roommate had once shared a overflow dorm, from guest
room with Hendricks’ own mother – in house to dining hall.
Ebenezer Hall. When Margaret Cook
shared a room in
Ebenezer with
Ebenezer Hall in early 2016.
JESSICA WHITLEY.
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