Stories Behind the Nation's Historic Buildings & Structures
Originally named the R.J. Taylor Memorial Hospital, the hospital was chartered in 1936 when Robert Jenks Taylor Sr. gave the city of Hawkinsville, Georgia $100,000 for construction of a hospital in memory of his father, Dr. Eziekiel Henry Taylor, and his grandfather, Dr. Robert Newsome Taylor, Hawkinsville’s first physicians. Robert Newsome Taylor was born April
In 1925, the citizens of Zebulon, Georgia passed a $30,000 bond for the construction of a new elementary school and to remodel an existing high school. The school building is a Neoclassical, one-story brick school-house with six classrooms and an auditorium on one end. Construction on the new school building began in April 1926 and Zebulon
Out near Summerville, Georgia lays what remains of Corpsewood Manor, a house built by Dr. Charles Lee Scudder and his partner Joseph Odom, and the site of their murders. Charles Scudder was born on October 6, 1926, in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. In the 1940s, he attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and was involved with the
Possessing a congregation that dates back to 1886, the Antioch Baptist Church located just of Taliaferro County, Georgia was founded by ex-slaves looking to expand their freedom and shaping their lives as they saw fit. Having purchased four acres from a nearby landowner for a church and cemetery, the church was built in 1899 by
The Foster-Thomason-Miller House is a historic home located in the Madison Historic District in Madison Georgia, built by Legare H. Foster in 1883. It was later owned by Robert Usher Thomason and his family, and then the Miller family in the 1970s who restored the house to its former grandeur. Incorporated on December 12, 1809,
James Cain Little was born in Jefferson County, Georgia to Robert Patterson Little and Elizabeth Cain Little on February 7, 1846. Robert P. Little was a successful and influential plantation owner and served in the state legislature for two terms. J.C. Little attended school until August 4th, 1863, when he enlisted in the Confederate Army
Located in Sparta, Georgia, this five-bedroom, three-bathroom home was constructed in 1890 by George William Rives. George was born on January 18, 1867. He was married to Lily Moate Rives who was born on October 2, 1873, and died on June 9, 1932. Some members of his family, George and Sarah Rives, were also owners
Pomegranate Hall was built in the 1830s by Nathan Sayre after moving to Sparta, Georgia from New Jersey in the early 1830s where he became a state attorney, a member of the Georgia legislature, and a superior court judge. Although he never married, he had several children with one of his slave women and later
The Nolan farm operated from 1856 to about 1970 and covered around 2000 acres. Today known as the Nolan Crossroads, the area represents the transition from slavery-based agriculture to the sharecropping economy of the South post-Civil War. This Neoclassical house was constructed by James A. Nolan in 1905 complete with the large curving porch which
Just on the outskirts of Sparta is the Birdsong House, also known as the John McCown House, located in the unincorporated community of Mayfield which consists mostly of middle to low-class citizens. Back in the early 1800s though, Mayfield and all of Hancock County were thriving as plantations flourished due to the large demand for