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Lanier University

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made architectural plans for the new campus in Morningside on a crescent-shaped strip of land (see illustration). At the head of this strip, at University Drive and Spring Valley Lane, would stand a replica of the
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Forrest predicted the Klan-run Lanier would enroll 1,000 to 2,000 students within a year. Instead, it failed in less time than that, closing on September 1, 1922. It was sold that October.
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but instead got backing from the Georgia Baptist Association. Lanier was to be Georgia's first co-ed Baptist college. The university was named in honor of
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Since 2009, Arlington Hall has been occupied by the Canterbury School, while the synagogue remains in buildings behind it to the east.
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Charles Lewis Fowler, a Baptist minister, founded Lanier in 1917. He hoped for financing from
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freeway, and many Jews were moving from there to Morningside, where many would later join to
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Lanier University as it was planned. Only the rightmost building, Arlington Hall, was built
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Financial problems plagued the school; in 1921, the school was sold to the
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Former Arlington Hall of Lanier University, now the Canterbury School
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Defunct private universities and colleges in Georgia (U.S. state)
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fight the construction of the I-485 freeway through Morningside
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The Ku-Klux Klan: Hearings before the Committee on rules
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Private
Baptist
Atlanta
Georgia
33°47′29″N 84°20′56″W / 33.791415°N 84.349023°W / 33.791415; -84.349023


private
university
Morningside-Lenox Park
Atlanta, Georgia
Ku Klux Klan
Coca-Cola
Asa Candler
Sidney Lanier
A. Ten Eyck Brown
Custis-Lee Mansion
Arlington, Virginia
William Joseph Simmons
Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan
Nathan Bedford Forrest II
Confederate general by the same name
The New York Times
Summerhill
synagogue
Downtown Connector
fight the construction of the I-485 freeway through Morningside
The Ku-Klux Klan: Hearings before the Committee on rules

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