Darton State College, established in April 1963 as Albany Junior College, is a four-year college of the University System of Georgia. It has grown from an enrollment of 620 students in 1966, its first year of operation, to 6,097 students in 2011. The citizens of Albany provided $1.6 million to finance the purchase of the original 100-acre site in west Albany and the construction of the school’s first five buildings. Today the campus covers 180 acres, beautifully landscaped with native grasses and shrubs, as well as a productive pecan grove.

U.S. president John F. Kennedy chose Rusk as secretary of state in 1961. Rusk's most important contribution as secretary of state was to provide calming counsel to Kennedy against the use of armed force and to employ skillful behind-the-scenes diplomacy with Soviet officials to have Soviet missiles removed from Cuba in 1962. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOoKavnaKjuqa602anqKSZqbakv46dnJqmXafCtLeManBpcV1mhnqAjqZka2tkZ3w%3D

The architecture firm Stevens and Wilkinson designed award-winning libraries and rapid transit stations; of the latter the MARTA station on Church Street in Decatur (1979) is their best. Photograph by Melinda G. Smith, New Georgia Encyclopedia The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the rights holder.

Crowds of demonstrators, in hopes of drawing global attention to a variety of social and economic issues, gathered in Brunswick during the 2004 G8 Summit in Sea Island. Although protests at previous summits have turned violent, protestors did not disrupt the proceedings in Sea Island. Photograph by Staci Atkins The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print.

The Dougherty County Courthouse in Albany, the county's third, was built in 1968 in the modern style. In 1993, after the completion of a new government center to house nonjudicial offices, the courthouse was named the Albany–Dougherty County Judicial Building. Courtesy of Don Bowman The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print.