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LAWRENCEVILLE – There was a sweet, sweet spirit in the room at the 2024 Community Prayer Breakfast hosted by the James Solomon Russell – Saint Paul’s College Museum and Archives.

Few famous Americans enjoy a status as mythic as that of George Washington Carver, a man whose life as a botanist, agronomist, chemist and inventor earned him a lasting legacy. Carver's work is considered instrumental in changing Southern approaches to agriculture.

A Grantham volunteer has been recognised for her hard work after becoming a finalist in a national award.

MINERAL POINT, Wis. -- Dora Mae Rowley, aged 90 of Mineral Point, died on June 12, 2023 at a Madison hospital, two months shy of her 91st birthday.

George Washington Carver, (born 1861?, near Diamond Grove, Missouri, U.S.—died January 5, 1943, Tuskegee, Alabama), American agricultural chemist, agronomist, and experimenter whose development of new products derived from peanuts (groundnuts), sweet potatoes, and soybeans helped revolutionize the agricultural economy of the South. For most of his career he taught and conducted research at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Tuskegee, Alabama. Carver was ...

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Peanut farming in Missouri has boomed in the past few years due to sandy soil in the Bootheel and a new processing facility.

Plans for new teaching block

In the middle of the 19th century, the Southern plains sprouted prized cotton on vast and elegant plantations. ...

Black History Month in February is a time to acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of African Americans in society as well as in the Johnson County community. Long before the famous U.S. Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education that ended school segregation 67 years ago and the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 ending national segregation, African Americans have made their mark in local and national history. George Washington Carver was one of them.