Alva Review-Courier -

CARROLLTON, Ga. (AP) — Lord knows how many times in the 113-year-old history of the University of West Georgia that students have picnicked, played Frisbee or casually walked across a small, grassy plot of land in the middle of the campus.

The school west of Atlanta was once the home of Thomas Bonner, one of the 19th century's largest Carroll County slaveholders. In 1906, the former Bonner Plantation was turned over to the state where it eventually became the core of what today is the university.

Few visible remnants of the plantation remain, most notably the Bonner House, which serves as the...