The Stilesboro Academy Building in Bartow County

The school opened in 1858 and moved into the building the next year. During the Civil War the Academy sewed Confederate uniforms until General Sherman came along and used the grounds to stable his horses. Legend has it that the phrase painted in the chapel, "Deo Ac Patriae" (God and Country) kept the building from being heavily damaged by Union soldiers. After the war it continued as a school until 1940 when  the Stilesboro Improvement Club took it over. I do not know who owns it now but it is endangered.
Andy Sarge