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McDaniel signs $65,000 bill to fund Georgia's first technical school
The $65,000 was appropriated before anyone knew where the school would stand; Atlanta wasn't picked until the following year.
Twenty years after the Civil War destroyed much of its industry, Georgia still relied on cotton while northern states built factories. On October 13, 1885, Governor Henry D. McDaniel signed legislation establishing a state technical school and appropriating $65,000 to build it. The bill carried no campus yet; Atlanta wasn't chosen as the location until 1886. The school that grew from this signature would open three years later as the Georgia School of Technology…
