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Kennesaw State University (KSU), a unit of the University System of Georgia (USG), is the second largest university in the state, with a fall 2022 enrollment of roughly 43,000. In January 2015 Kennesaw merged with Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU), bringing together the schools’ campuses and students under KSU’s name. The main campus is located near Kennesaw, along I-75 in Cobb County, and the former SPSU campus, ten miles south, serves as a satellite campus.

Hollywood actor Kim Basinger signs autographs in 1991 at the University of Georgia's Henry Field Stadium tennis complex. An Athens native, Basinger donated a lighting system to the facility. 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 Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The Kiokee Baptist Church is the oldest Baptist church in the state to sustain its membership. Founded under pioneer preacher Daniel Marshall, this congregation became a constituent member of the first association of Georgia Baptists and conducted Baptist missionary work in the Augusta area. In 1772 Daniel Marshall, one of the early pioneer preachers in Georgia, constituted a church near Kiokee Creek, some eighteen miles southwest of Augusta and the Savannah River.

LaGrange, the seat of Troup County, is located approximately sixty miles southwest of Atlanta in the foothills of the western Piedmont. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the city’s population is 30,858. The downtown street plan, covering the original 202.5 acres of the town, is basically unaltered from that laid out in 1828 by the county surveyor, Samuel Reid, though the city now encompasses some twenty-nine square miles. The central point, now a public square with a fountain, was home to the county courthouse from 1828 until 1936.