Could this have been the start of an annual exposition for the entire state? Can you claim a name? Any information regarding such events in Middle Georgia are welcome. source: Georgia laws 1851-1852 An Act to incorporate the Georgia Mechanical and Manufacturing Institute in the city of Macon, and to confer certain privileges upon the same. Approved, January 12, 1852. ...That Mark A. Cooper, James D. Lester, Jason Burr, A.O. Brown, James Van Buren, William Taylor, B.F. Griffin, Robert Findley, Charles P. Levy, I.F. Brown, William A. Anderson, T. D. Irvin, E. J. Jones, William H. Pritchard, Lewis Lawshe, Charles S. Oliver, Samuel Griswold, A. F. Sherwood, James Taylor, G.W. Adams, L.F.W. Andrews, W. B. Parker, E.J. Johnson, and their associates and successors, be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name and style of the Georgia Mechanical and Manufactural Institute for the promotion of Art, Mechanics, and other industry and ingenuity in this State, by means of an Annual State Fair Mechanics, Manufacturers and others.... Jennifer Sherwood Braswell [email protected] GABIBB coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~gabibb/bibb.htm