The Northwest Georgia High School Association was founded by L. Josephine Razor, principal of the Temple Model School, in April 1905 as a literary society for exceptional high school students in the local area. Seven schools were part of the first meeting including Bremen, Bowdon, Buchanan, Dallas, Douglasville, Tallapoosa, and Temple. Each of these schools were asked to send a boy and a girl to take part in a contest involving their oratory skills, as well as prepare one musical number for the meeting. These contests and others that involved spelling, composition, and athletics were held every year between the local schools, which had grew to include Cedartown and Carrollton by 1907. In 1912, the interest in the association and its contests had spread all the way across the state. Due to this large amount of interest, Dr. J. S. Stewart, Superintendent of Secondary Education in Georgia, suggested the association be disbanded and a similar organization developed in each district. This was done following the final meeting of the Northwest Georgia High School Association which was held in LaGrange in 1912.