The name honored a town in Georgia in the Creek Nation. Loughridge left Koweta to supervise Tullahassee Manual Labor School, which was completed in 1850. The Koweta school closed in 1861.

Pastor Michael Webber finds ways to serve the community any time he’s needed. He attributes part of that to being the son of a preacher, Bishop Elbert Webber Sr. “I was a druggie,” Michael ...