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01/19/2018

Despite its beginnings as a rural farming community, Sandy Springs has been offering high-quality education to its young residents since the early 1850s. In 1851, the deed of trust for the Sandy Springs Methodist Church designated the establishment of the area's first schoolhouse. Many of the founding educators helped shape the town's scholastic system by creating curriculum for split grade levels, or by working around the harvest for kids whose farmwork took precedence over schooling.

Since those early days, many residents left the community to receive their teaching license, later returning to develop the minds of Sandy Springs' next generations. Sandy Springs educators like Frances McKibben, who moved back to the Atlanta area in the 1960s, were always willing to go the extra mile for their students.

Read more in this week’s edition of the Sandy Springs Gazette “History’s Teacher: Part I” at bit.ly/ssgazette.