In fact, Charles A. Lindbergh purchased his first plane (a Jenny) from Souther Field.

Lindbergh would later gain international recognition as the first person to fly from New York to Paris nonstop in "The Spirit of St. Louis" in 1927.

The small town is a part of Sumter County Historic District, because of its history in railroad and technological advances during the mid-1800s.

Thanks to local attorney Samuel H. Hawkins[2] Americus was known as the Metropolis of Southwest Georgia because of its major cotton distribution.

The college is 32 miles from the larger city of Albany, Georgia and approximately 2.5 hours away from the state's capital Atlanta.