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Before the merger, Americus High School won state championships in football in 1962, 1965, 1974, 1975, 2000, and 2001. NFL player Leonard Pope was a member of the championship teams in 2000 and 2001. Former NFL coaches Chan Gailey and Dan Reeves are graduates and former football players at Americus High. The superintendent is Walter Knighton.
Americus is the county seat of Sumter County, Georgia, United States. [4] As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 16,230. It is the principal city of the Americus Micropolitan Statistical Area , a micropolitan area that covers Schley and Sumter counties [ 5 ] and had a combined population of 36,966 at the 2000 census .
Sumter County is a county located in the west-central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, its population was 29,616. [1] The county seat is Americus. [2] The county was created on December 26, 1831. Sumter County is part of the Americus micropolitan statistical area.
Keep the soul of the home, but rebuild a modern-day version.' " In 2016, just after the arrival of their first son, the McNeills decided it was time to revive the farmhouse.
South Georgia Technical College is located on the outskirts of Americus, in Sumter County, Georgia just southwest of interstate 75.The small town is a part of Sumter County Historic District, because of its history in railroad and technological advances during the mid-1800s.
The Georgia Governor's Honors Program (commonly referred to as "GHP") is a summer educational program in the state of Georgia, in the United States.It is a four-week (formerly six-week prior to 2011, and originally eight-week) summer instructional program for intellectually gifted and artistically talented high school students of Georgia.
Southland Academy was founded in 1966 as a private school in response to the desegregation of Georgia public schools. [4] [5] In 1979 the public school board (6 of 7 members of which sent their children to Southland) declared many of the district's buses, books and materials to be "surplus", then sold them to Southland at low prices.
The Lake Blackshear Headquarters Library is located in Americus. The system is also home to the second oldest Carnegie library in Georgia, located in Cordele. [2] LBRLS is a member of PINES, a program of the Georgia Public Library Service that covers 53 library systems in 143 counties of Georgia. [3]