Dr. Scipio S. Johnson was a prominent member of Augusta’s Black community and lived at 1420 Twiggs Street in the Bethlehem neighborhood He lived in the Craftsman-style brick home from its construction in the 1920s until he died in 1940. Dr. Johnson graduated from the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute in Augusta. He graduated from Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania, and Howard University in Washington, DC. Dr. Johnson was a pharmacist and operated Johnson Drug Store out of his house on Twiggs Street.
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