University of West Georgia

Carrollton, Georgia is home to a public educational institution known as the University of West Georgia. The university provides students with the opportunity to attend certain programmes at its Douglasville Center, as well as off-campus Museum Studies seminars held at the Atlanta History Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Additionally, the institution maintains a satellite campus in Newnan, Georgia. As of the beginning of the Fall 2019 semester, there were a total of 13,238 students enrolled, including 10,411 undergraduates and 2,827 graduate students. The University of Georgia System counts this institution as one of its four comprehensive institutions, which the University of Georgia is.

In 1906, in response to a need for a "more realistic educational curriculum for rural adolescents" between the ages of 13 and 21, the Fourth District Agricultural and Mechanical School was established as a result of a decision made in that year. It was decided that the best place to build the school would be on the Bonner plantation.

The first principal of the school was John H. Melson, who held that position from 1908 to 1920. John Melson and his wife Penelope, both students at the school, worked closely alongside one another and with the other students to further improve the educational establishment. In addition to that, Penelope Melson was the one who established the library at the institution where she worked. She organised a "book shower" in January of 1908, which resulted in the donation of a little more than 300 manuscripts to the institution.