The sign is one of two in Irwinville heralding the great Irwinville High School Farmers basketball team, state champions in 1947, 1950, and 1951. The late, legendary Wallace “Country” Childs (d. 2006) was their formidable coach, and in the consecutive title years of 1950 and 1951 they chalked up 76 wins, a record only recently broken by Cuthbert’s Randolph-Clay High School. The school closed in 1955.
Irwinville Cemetery
Wife of J. F. Bishop
2 December 1857 – 26 July 1899
Irwinville Cemetery
19 February 1854 – 10 December 1923
Irwinville Cemetery
4 September 1863 – 4 March 1928
Built to accomodate the ever-growing circle of friends of members of the Jekyll Island Club, Sans Souci (meaning “no worries”) is considered to be one of the first condominiums ever built in the United States.
Portions of this church were originally built by freed slaves on nearby Broadfield (now Hofwyl-Broadfield) Plantation in the late 1870s, where it was known as Broadfield Baptist Church. It was removed to this location and took on its present appearance in 1885. It is now thought to be one of the most important remaining African-American vernacular churches in Georgia.
This school served the needs of plantation blacks from nearby Broadfield Plantation from 1907 until the late 1950s. It is a rare surviving example of African-American vernacular schoolhouse architecture in Georgia.
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