Josiah Meigs was an American academic, journalist, and government official. He was the first acting president of the University of Georgia in Athens, where he implemented the university's first physics curriculum in 1801, and also president of the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences.
Marker over the grave of Josiah Meigs at Arlington National Cemetery
The University of Georgia is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia, United States. Chartered in 1785, it is one of the oldest public universities in the United States. It is the flagship school of the University System of Georgia.
Old College Building
Lyman Hall, one of the founders of the University of Georgia
Abraham Baldwin, one of the founders and first president of the University of Georgia
Mary Ethel Creswell, in 1919, the first woman to earn an undergraduate degree at the university