After a fundraising campaign that raised over $540,000.00, after a grant application process that secured $500,000.00 and $200,000.00 respectively, after over a year of construction, the dreams of numerous Butts County citizens, business leaders, educators, civic groups, churches and local government officials were realized with the Grand Opending and Dedication Ceremonies held on October 11, 2007 at the new Griffin Technical College, Butts County Campus site on Highway 16 west of Jackson.  Within a short time, the campus was operating at full strength with a variety of classes available to the local population including a state-of-the-art diesel mechanic program, unique to the southside of Atlanta. On July 1, 2010 Griffin Technical College merged with Flint River Technical College to form Southern Crescent Technical College.
																2005
On September 21, 2005, Governor Sonny Perdue presented a $500,000.00 Community Development Block Grant to local officials and members of the Griffin Tech for Butts County Committee (Picture above, left). Pictured from left to right are Michael Brewer, Committee Co-Chairman, Van G. Whaler, CDBG Grant Applicant, Wayne Brown of Griffin Technical College, Governor Sonny Perdue, Andrew Johnson, Committee Member, County Commissioner Gerald Kersey, Committee Co-Chairman Melinda Atha, Richard Smith and 2005 Chamber President Lynda White.
																				2006
			On June 30th, 2006, community leaders officially broke ground on the new 13,500 square foot campus building. Pictured on the right, from left to right are: 2006 Chamber President Kelly Yielding, Chamber Director Melinda Atha, Commissioner Gerald Kersey, Griffin Technical College Board Vice Chairman Michael Brewer, Commissioner Lester Peek, Development Authority Member Bill Jones, Commission Chairman Eddie Travis, GTC Vice President Wayne Brown, Butts County Administrator Van G. Whaler and Martha Almond, donor of the property through the Louise Simpson Foundation of Jackson.
					2007
						On October 11, 2007, the Griffin Technical College-Butts County Campus was officially opened and dedicated. Several hundred local citizens filled the building and admired what they had come together to build.
							2010
		On August 3, 2010, the first major expansion project for the Butts County Campus of what is now Southern Crescent Technical College began with a groundbreaking ceremony for a new Commercial Drivers License-Tractor/Trailer Training Center. This program, which is slated to be relocated from the Griffin Campus to the Butts County Campus is a $317,000.00 project paid for by the Technical College System of Georgia and was contracted to Butts County Public Works to construct. Pictured left to right in the groundbreaking, along with several local citizens and business people, with shovels in hand, are: Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Melinda Atha; District 4 Commissioner Keith Douglas; District 3 Commissioner and Board of Commissioners Chairman Mitch McEwen; Southern Crescent Technical College President Ivan Allen; District 2 Commissioner Robert Henderson; District 1 Commissioner Gator Hodges; District 5 Commissioner and Board of Commissioners Vice Chairman Roger McDaniel; County Administrator Alan White; and Deputy County Administrator and Southern Crescent Technical College Board of Directors Chairman Michael Brewer. Photograph courtesty of Mike Davis, Jackson Progress-Argus
About the Campus The Griffin Tech for Butts County Committee was the principal steering and fundraising group responsible for securing property, financial and in-kind contributions and publicity for overall project. The committee was comprised of the following individuals all from Butts County: Melinda B. Atha, Co-Chairperson & Executive Director of the Butts County Chamber of Commerce J. Michael Brewer, Co-Chairperson, Director of Operations for Butts County Board of Commissioners Marshall Avett, Publisher, Jackson Progress-Argus Newspaper Bruce E. Bartholomew, President and Chief Operating Officer, McIntosh State Bank of Jackson Pamela Browning, Vice President and Loan Officer, First Georgia Community Bank James A. Freeman, Retired Citizen Wanda Greene, Land Use Manager for Jackson Lake, Georgia Power Company Andrew Johnson, Owner, Construction Materials Services William B. Jones, President and Chief Executive Officer, Jones Petroleum Company Jim Trenton, Retired Citizen Lynda White, Superintendent of Schools, Butts County Board of Education In addition, the Committee wishes to publicly thank Dr. Van G. Whaler, County Administrator of Butts County for his stellar work in preparing and submitting successfully two grants totalling $700,000.00 towards this project and Mrs. Martha Almond for her generous location of the land the facility is on. Without these two individuals, this project would not have been possible.