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Our Humble Beginnings

In late 1947, architects were busy drawing up plans for a new building to house the fledgling University of Georgia veterinary school and clinics. But the school needed temporary quarters to house its animal hospital while the new building went up on the site of the university sheep barn.

The school arranged to obtain two surplus prefabricated buildings from army camps that were closed at the end of World War II. In 1948, these buildings were moved to nearby farm land owned by the Poultry Department.

With the small animal hospital housed in the large building and the large animal hospital in the smaller one, 2 professors and 56 students using borrowed tables and microscopes dispensed veterinary care in these makeshift facilities for three years until the new building was ready for occupancy in 1951.