In 2005, Davidson County Community College and the City of Thomasville formed a partnership for the creation of the Thomasville Artisan Center.

* Thomasville City Schools

* Thomasville City School District

The 1950s also saw the planting of roses along Highway 43, the main highway through Thomasville, earning it the nickname of The City of Roses.

Thomasville has its own public school system, the Thomasville City School System, that includes Thomasville Elementary with an enrollment of 676 students, Thomasville Middle with 535, and Thomasville High with 448.

Thomasville City Schools meet 100 % of Alabama's accountability goals in all three schools.

* City of Thomasville

* Thomasville City School System

The Thomasville City School District holds grades pre-school to grade twelve, that consists of three elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school which is Thomasville High Bulldogs.

* Thomasville City Scholars Academy ( 6-12 )

Thomasville is commonly referred to as the " Chair Town " or " Chair City ", in reference to a 30 foot landmark replica of a Duncan Phyfe armchair that rests in the middle of the city.

* Thomasville, Sim City series

The company was owned by Charles H. Adams of the City of New York, John E. Page of Albany, New York, Edward Danforth of Elmira, New York, William V. Page of Albany, New York, Edward Lewis of Tallahassee, Florida, Author P. Wright of Thomasville, Georgia, C. D. McDougall of Auburn, New York and J. Edmund Page of Albany, New York.

Davidson County is served by Davidson County Schools ; however, the cities of Thomasville and Lexington have their own school districts.

Davidson County Schools has eight schools in the Thomasville area: Brier Creek Elementary ( K-5 ), Fair Grove Elementary ( K-5 ), Hasty Elementary ( K-5 ), Wallburg Elementary School ( K-5 ), Friendship Elementary School ( K-5 ), Pilot Elementary ( K-5 ), E. Lawson Brown Middle School ( 6-8 ), Ledford Middle School ( 6-8 ), East Davidson High School ( 9-12 ), and Ledford High School ( 9-12 ).

Notable secondary schools and school districts include Franklin High School ( Stockton, CA ), Kingfisher High School ( Kingfisher Oklahoma ), Alvin High School ( Alvin, TX ) Sprayberry High School ( Marietta, Georgia ), Thomas County Central High School, ( Thomasville, GA ), Xavier University Preparatory High School ( New Orleans, Louisiana ), Berkeley High School ( Berkeley, California ), Freeport Area School District ( Sarver, Pennsylvania ), Ferndale Area High School ( Johnstown, Pennsylvania ), Llano High, Junior High, Elementary, and Packsaddle Elementary Schools ( Llano County Texas ), Cleburne High School ( Cleburne, Texas ), Mount Vernon High School ( Mount Vernon, Ohio ), Newark High School ( Newark, Delaware ), Osbourn Park High School ( Manassas, Virginia ), James Monroe High School ( Fredericksburg, VA ), Roane County High School ( Kingston, TN ), Sabinal School District ( Sabinal, Texas ), Perrysburg High School ( Perrysburg, Ohio ), Sidney High School ( Sidney, Ohio ), Girard High School ( Girard, Pennsylvania ), Vincent High School ( Vincent, Alabama ), McAdory High School ( McCalla, Alabama ), Thomas Jefferson High School ( Council Bluffs, Iowa ), Irmo Middle School, Irmo High School ( Irmo, South Carolina ) and Oxnard High School ( Oxnard, California ), Saint Augustine High School ( Saint John's County FLA ), Lee County Senior High School ( Sanford, NC ), Palo Verde Valley High School ( Blythe, California ), George Washington Carver High School ( Winston-Salem, North Carolina ) Northampton High School ( Eastville, Virginia ), Coffee High School ( Florence, Alabama ), Blue Ridge High School ( Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona ), Sheridan School District ( Sheridan, Arkansas ), Oneonta High School ( Oneonta, New York ), Gwynn Park High School ( Brandywine, Maryland ), Ithaca High School ( Ithaca, Michigan ), Starkville High School ( Starkville, Mississippi ), Detroit Country Day School ( Beverly Hills, Michigan ), Woodford County High School ( Versailles, KY ), Oakleaf Junior High ( Orange Park, FL ), and Spencer Middle School ( Spencer, WV ).

Built around the local railway system, Thomasville is home to the oldest railroad depot in the state, just a few hundred feet from the city's most notable landmark, " The Big Chair ".

Although Thomasville is located in Davidson County, it has its own public school system.

After winning four consecutive games in Thomasville, he moved to Jamestown, New York, in the PONY League, where he compiled a 5-2 record.

Thomasville is serviced by AmStar Emergency Medical Services ( EMS )( Ambulance Service ), also located on Mosley Drive.

* Glenwood Historic District ( Thomasville, Georgia ), listed on the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP ) in Thomas County, Georgia

GPB operates all of the Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ) and National Public Radio ( NPR ) stations in Georgia, except WPBA, WABE, and WCLK in Atlanta, WFSL-FM in Thomasville ( which relays WFSQ-FM from FSU radio in Tallahassee, Florida ), and WTJB-FM in Columbus ( which relays Troy University Public Radio from WTSU-FM in Troy, Alabama ).

Thomasville Nursing Home is a 70 bed long-term care facility located on Mosley Drive.

* Thomasville Christian School ( K-8 )

Thomasville Senior High School Bulldogs won the state 1AA Football Championship from 2004 to 2006, and again in 2008.

Lexington, Thomasville, and the rural areas surrounding them are slowly turning into bedroom communities for nearby cities such as Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point.

Also, the Thomasville Senior High School marching band, The Scarlet Regiment, is an award winning band.

Thomasville is located at ( 30. 836444 ,-83. 978199 ).

Thomasville is located at ( 35. 885848 ,-80. 077323 ).

Smaller stores to its left were demolished to become Cost Plus World Market, and the same was done to its right for a new Basset Furniture, and a Thomasville Furniture store ( which moved from Town Center Oaks ).

The 1950s extension absorbed Route 80 ( Gainesville to West Plains in 1922, later extended west to Lakeview and east to Thomasville ) and the part of Route 14 east of Alton ( created in 1922 as Route 42, and later absorbed by Route 14 ).

He established the family's Mill Pond Plantation in Thomasville, Georgia in 1906 ( later divided by the family to include the Arcadia Plantation ).

To raise money for the March of Dimes campaign against polio in 1947, Aycock came up with the idea of playing golf cross-country from Lexington, North Carolina to the ninth hole at Thomasville Golf Course ; a distance of about 10 miles ( 16 km ).

Its northern terminus is at the Tennessee state line just southeast of Chattanooga ( connecting with Tennessee State Route 8 ), and its southern terminus is at the Florida state line about twelve miles ( 19 km ) south-southeast of Thomasville ( connecting with Florida State Road 57 ).

Born in Thomasville, GA on 2 July 1926, Murphy began his career as an African specialist while serving as visiting lecturer in social anthropology at South Africa's University College of Fort Hare ( then the only college for non-whites in apartheid South Africa ).

The Great School Wars: A History of the New York City Public Schools.

Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for 12 years, retiring in 1978 to write full-time.

He taught history and geography in the Baltimore City Public Schools from 1966 to 1978, most notably at Baltimore City College and the now closed Southwest Senior High School.

Also since 2008 the City of Valladolid and the International School of Culinary Arts celebrates the International Tapas Competition for Culinary Schools.

At the same time, the Huntsville City Schools named Roger B. Chaffee Elementary School and Virgil I. Grissom High School for White's fallen Apollo 1 crewmates.

The city is served by Memphis City Schools, while surrounding suburbs in other areas of Shelby County are served by Shelby County Schools.

However, on March 8, 2011, residents voted to disband Memphis City Schools, effectively merging it with the Shelby County School District.

Central City Public Schools are part of the Gilpin County School District RE-1.

Other notable All-Steinway Schools are the Yale School of Music at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, the Juilliard School located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Cleveland Institute of Music in Ohio, Royal Holloway, University of London in England, the University of Melbourne Faculty of the VCA and Music in Victoria, Australia, the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China, and the University of South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa.

There are also two state Church Schools ; Llandaff City Church in Wales Primary School and Bishop of Llandaff Church in Wales High School.

As of January 2011, Montgomery's largest employers were Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base ( 12, 280 employees ), the State of Alabama ( 9, 500 ), Montgomery Public Schools ( 4, 524 ), Baptist Health ( 4, 300 ), Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama ( 2, 700 ), Alfa Insurance ( 2, 568 ), the City of Montgomery ( 2, 500 ), Jackson Hospital & Clinic ( 1, 300 ), Rheem Water Heaters ( 1, 147 ), and Regions ( 977 ).

Bishop McGuinness Catholic High SchoolOklahoma City is home to the state's largest school district, Oklahoma City Public Schools.

Numerous suburban school districts surround the urban Oklahoma City Public Schools district, including Putnam City Public Schools in the northwest, Moore Public Schools in the south, and Mid-Del Schools in the southeast.

" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James ' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager.

High Schools in Westland and Bay City, Michigan ; Walkerton, Indiana ; San Angelo, Texas ; Elwood, Long Island, New York ; and Norwalk, California were also named after him.