page_title: History of Piedmont College
section_title: Becoming Piedmont
hierarchical_section_title: History of Piedmont College / Becoming Piedmont
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of John C. Campbell, former president of Piedmont College
context_page_description: Piedmont College is a private liberal arts institution founded in 1897 to serve residents of the Appalachian area of northeast Georgia, United States.
context_section_description: In the early 1900s, there was a large draw to the Demorest area from many northern Congregationalists.   This new influx of Congregationalists brought many highly educated people into the college circle.  One of these new residents was John Charles Campbell, who would become the second president of Piedmont. Campbell came to Demorest to serve as principal of the preparatory portion of the J.S. Green College. When Spence resigned due to health issues, Campbell was promoted.
  Around the same time that Campbell became president, the board of trustees decided to sell the charter for the J.S. Green College to the Congregational churches, who elected all Congregationalists to the new board of trustees.  With the changing of ownership came some controversy.  It was believed at the time that the school was named after Jesse S. Green because of his religious affiliation with the Methodist church.  The Congregationalists wanted the school to not be tied down to one religious association.  So in 1903, the college was renamed Piedmont College after the area of Georgia in which it was located.
caption: John Charles Campbell
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