<p>The Brooks County Jail is a historic building in Quitman, Georgia. It was built in 1884 and served as Brooks County&#39;s only jail until 1980.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located at 200 South Madison Street.</p><br>
<p>The jail was built in 1884 by contractor Simeon A. Remington to replace an uninsured wooden 1867 jail which "burned to the ground" on June 17, 1880. It was built to be fireproof and cost $3,870 for the building plus $2,000 for its free-standing two-story steel cells. The jail "was considered one of the best in the state, and housed prisoners until 1980 when it no longer met state fire and criminal justice codes. It was a site of executions.</p><br>
<p>A 1981 review asserted that the building is architecturally significant as "the county&#39;s prime example of Romanesque style architecture."</p><br>
<p>Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery is a historic site in Quitman, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The church congregation was organized in 1834 and the church building was built c. 1861. It is located on County Road 125.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed notable as one of the last surviving antebellum buildings in rural Brooks County, and also "for its simple form, design, and craftsmanship, typical not only of rural churches but also of Primitive Baptist churches." It is notable also as very early example of a Primitive Baptist church, as the generally accepted date of the founding of the Primitive Baptist faith in the United States (in Black Rock, Maryland) is just two years earlier, in 1832. The church building was used by the congregation from c.1861 to 1965, and again from 1981 to 1984.</p><br>
<p>Liberty Baptist Church is a historic church built about 1858 in Grooverville, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 20, 2013. It is located on Liberty Church Road. There is a Georgia Historical Commission historical marker at the site. According to the marker: "In 1841 the Ocklochnee anti-Missionary Baptist Association passed a ruling to dismiss members believing in the new fangled institutions of the day." One of the excommunicated sisters joined with others in forming the Liberty Baptist Church. The church includes a slave gallery. Freed slaves from the area formed First Elizabeth Church in Grooverville.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Gray Turner House, also known as Nocturne is a historic site in Quitman, Georgia. The estate, including the house, outbuildings, and grounds, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 8, 1980. The property is located at 802 Old Madison Road. The home is associated with Henry G. Turner.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The plans are marked with Munn & Co., an early patent law firm whose owner Orson Desaix Munn became the publisher of Scientific American. The hand-drawn original plans on vellum were found in the home&#39;s attic and are displayed in the house. The home was constructed by T.J. Darling of Waycross, Georgia.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story house. Its grounds are also significant.</p><br>
<p>Kilkenny  is a historic estate in Bryan County, Georgia listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The 662-acre pre-American Revolutionary War property was in the possession of Thomas Young (1733–1808) from about 1758. The executors of Young&#39;s estate sold Kilkenny to Charles Rogers of Savannah and Sapelo Island on January 21, 1836. The land was used to raise Sea Island cotton. Rogers built a wooden frame house around 1845 that still exists. A Union gunboat shelled the property from the Bear River during the USA Civil War.</p><br>
<p>Kilkenny plantation was purchased by James M. Butler in 1874; it was then acquired by James H. Furber in January 1890 and became home to the Kilkenny Club, a seven-member consortium who took over the plantation and its house to host summer fishing vacations. In 1889 a well was drilled. By 1913, when the property was sold to a Mr. R. C. Paschall, the house itself was in considerable disrepair.</p><br>
<p>The property was owned by Former Tennessee governor John Cox. It was later restored as a private home following Henry Ford&#39;s acquisition of the property in 1930. The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 14, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Kilkenny is east of Richmond Hill, Georgia, situated at the southeast end of Kilkenny Road and the western shore of Kilkenny Creek. The property fronts the creek and overlooks tidal salt marsh out towards the St. Catherines Islands and Ossabaw Islands, with access to St. Catherine&#39;s Sound. A nearby tidal station is named for the Kilkenny Club.</p><br>
<p>The Fitch–Hoose House  is a single-family house at 6 Gulf Road in Dalton, Massachusetts. The wood-frame house was built in 1846, and is a representative of housing of the African American community in Dalton in the 19th century. Now owned by the town and restored, the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Fitch–Hoose House stands on the northern fringe of the village of Dalton, in an area called The Gulf that was known to be settled by freed or escaped African Americans in the early 19th century. It is a small -story wood-frame structure, with a gable roof, brick chimney on one end, and clapboarded exterior. The ground floor of the main facade is three bays wide, with a slightly off-center entrance flanked by sash windows. The attic story is taller than often seen in mid-19th century houses, and is presently devoid of windows; surviving window openings have been covered by modern siding. A shed-roof ell extends to the rear; its roof is at a different pitch than that of the main roof, and the two are not joined.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1848 by William Bogart, and immediately sold to Henry Fitch, a local African American. After a succession of owners, including local papermaking magnate Zenas M. Crane (who had acquired and foreclosed on Henry Fitch&#39;s mortgage), the property was purchased in 1868 by Charles Hoose, member of an African American family that had been resident in Dalton since at least 1830. The Hoose family occupied the house until 2001. The property then fell vacant, was taken by the town through tax foreclosure proceedings in 2004. Since then it has been the focus of restoration work by the local historic commission.</p><br>
<p>Haven Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church was a historic Gothic Revival-style church in Waynesboro, Georgia, which was founded by former slaves in 1866. Construction of the building began in 1888. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996, and was delisted in 2024. It was located on Barron Street south of the junction of Barron Street and 6th Street.</p><br>
<p>The church burned on September 16, 2017, and was a total loss. Sixty-eight-year-old Palmer Crumbley was found inside the burning church and he was arrested and charged with arson in the incident.</p><br>
<p>Hopeful Baptist Church is a historic church in Keysville, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 1993. It is located on Winter Road east of the junction with Blythe Road.</p><br>
<p>It is a classic Greek Revival, monumental, temple-like building built during 1850–51, and the church is notable for having both white and black members, before the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>It is made of George longleaf yellow pine (heart pine), on a brick foundation. It has four masonry front porch columns supporting a large pediment in the front gable. It has an entablature and pilasters and two door openings in the front (north-facing) facade. It has five windows on each side and two on the south end, all windows being original, large 16-pane over 16-pane windows.</p><br>
<p>The McCanaan Missionary Baptist Church is an active church in Sardis, Georgia. It serves members in Burke County, Georgia and Screven County, Georgia. Together with its cemetery, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 as McCanaan Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The church was organized in 1875 by Rev. Frank Cooper, and a small church was built on the current church&#39;s site. Its membership included sharecroppers at the Millhaven Plantation in Screven County, Georgia.</p><br>
<p>The c.1875 church was replaced in the 1890s and the church was again rebuilt in 1912. In the early 1900s a school was built behind the church which served grades one through six. The property has a cemetery that was started in the 1930s, next to the church, after burials at a church-associated original cemetery on Millhaven Plantation (about 4.5 miles away, to the southeast) were ceased. The cemetery has "simple granite markers". Baptisms associated with the church took place in Brier Creek, about one mile to the north.</p><br>
<p>In its NRHP nomination, the church was deemed significant architecturally as "an excellent example of a rural African-American church with a cemetery" in Georgia, having characteristics identified as typical for the type. It is a wood framed simple building with a church tower and a modest amount of Gothic Revival styling in its windows, gable-ends, and tower.</p><br>
<p>The Millhaven Plantation was a very large operation.</p><br>
<p>A history of the church at its 121st anniversary was written by church member Evelyn Williams in 1996. With assistance of Anne Floyd, a historic preservation planner, Williams completed an information form about the property for submission to Georgia&#39;s Historic Preservation Division, leading eventually to the listing of the property on the NRHP in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The J. R. Carmichael House, also known as The Carmichael House, is a historic residence in Jackson, Georgia. It was built in 1898 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It is located at 149 McDonough Road.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Atlanta architects Bruce & Morgan. Its NRHP nomination describes it as "a marvelous assemblage of forms perhaps best described as the Queen Anne Victorian style." It has an asymmetric front facade, and has turrets, dormers, and decorated chimneys.</p><br>
<p>Idlewilde is a historic boarding house site built between 1907-1910 at what is now the Indian Springs State Park in Butts County, Georgia. Two granddaughters of Robert Grier, a famous 19th century astronomer and author of the Grier Almanac, built Idlewilde and its gardens. It was operated as a boarding house until 1925. Mr. and Mrs. Willis B. Powell owned the house until 1943 and their guests included Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The property was then owned by Mrs. Linda T. Rastello until 1979 when she sold it to the State of Georgia. It has been used as the administrative offices of the park since March, 1995. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in March, 1999. The administrative offices of Indian Springs State Park have been in Idlewilde since March 1995. The park includes waters considered medicinal by Native Americans, giving the park its name, stone buildings and walls built by President Franklin D. Roosevelt&#39;s CCC work crews during the Great Depression, and history of the resort hotels of the area from the early 20th Century. The offices are well preserved and include pine floors, beveled glass windows, and a striking staircase.</p><br>
<p>Indian Springs Hotel Museum is located in the former Indian Springs Hotel, a historic hotel in Georgia established in 1825. The Treaty of 1825 was signed at the hotel; the Creek Indians ceded much of Georgia and Alabama to the United States in the treaty. During the American Civil War, Sherman&#39;s troops camped in the area. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It has been restored and converted into a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Ironton Historic District is a historic district located in downtown Ironton, Ohio. The district is roughly bounded by Washington and Center Streets and South 2nd and South 4th Streets. The buildings in the district were constructed between the 1870s and the 1950s. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 8, 2009.</p><br>
<p>A number of buildings which are individually listed on the National Register are located in the district, including the Marting Hotel, the Ironton Norfolk and Western Depot, the Brumberg Building, and the Marlow Theatre. The Lawrence County Courthouse, the county courthouse for Lawrence County, is located in the district. The district also includes historic commercial properties such as the Art Moderne-styled Ungers Shoes, the oldest shoe store in Ironton, and the Art Deco RoNa Theater.</p><br>
<p>Tyringham Cemetery is a historic cemetery section just outside the historic center of Tyringham, Massachusetts. The 3.67 acre property lies on the west side of Church Street, opposite the Union Church. The historically designated portion of the cemetery excludes a 4 acre parcel that was purchased in the 2000s.</p><br>
<p>Housatonic Township #1, of which Tyringham was a part, was settled in 1739, and was incorporated as Tyringham in 1767. Its original town center is located in Monterey, which separated in 1847. The current town center developed around the first meeting house to be built in the northern section of the township, around 1779. Its precise location is not known, but is believed to be within the bounds of the cemetery; one potential location is indicated by a stone marker.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery is ringed by an iron picket fence donated in 1892 by the Hale family. It contains more than 800 gravestones, dating from 1797 to the present. The earliest stones were generally made for marble, which was quarried from nearby Berkshire County towns, while later monuments were made of granite. An unusually large number of markers (fourteen) are made of "white bronze", marketed by the Monumental Bronze Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut between 1874 and 1914. Two unusual markers are in the shape of truncated tree trunks, their inscriptions incised on scrolls that appear to be suspended from the top of the marker; perhaps in a contrast to their elaborate nature, they commemorate working-class individuals. Prominent burials in the cemetery include members of the Garland and Hale families, both of which have lineage to the town&#39;s early settlers.</p><br>
<p>The Hillsdale County Courthouse is a government building located at 29 North Howell Street in Hillsdale, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1969 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Hillsdale County was set off from Lenawee County in 1829. The original county seat, Jonesville, was chosen in 1831. In 1839, the more centrally located Hillsdale began agitating for the seat, and in 1843 the state legislature agreed. A temporary structure was erected as a courthouse on this site; it was soon followed by a 30 ft by 50 ft frame structure. That structure burned in 1849, and a new sandstone courthouse was completed by early 1851.</p><br>
<p>By 1887, it was recognized that a new courthouse was necessary. However, voters did not approve the funds necessary until 1898, when $45,000 was allocated for this building. The county hired Claire Allen of Jackson to design the building and Geake and Henry of Fort Wayne, Indiana to construct it. Construction occurred over 1898-99, and the building was dedicated on September 6, 1899.</p><br>
<p>A clock was added to the clock tower in 1909, and was refurbished in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Hillsdale County Courthouse is a three-story yellow sandstone Renaissance Revival structure. Its hip roof is surmounted with a copper-roofed cupola. A pedimented portico covers the main entrance.</p><br>
<p>Albany Theatre is a historic theater in Albany, Georgia, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 21, 2006. The Albany Theatre opened on September 12, 1927. The building, no longer in operation as a theatre, is located at 107 North Jackson Street.</p><br>
<p>The Albany Theatres first production featured H. L. Tallman on the Robert Morton Organ Company pipe organ (Opus 2304) along with Ralph Barnes and his Albany Theatre Orchestra accompanying The Magic Flame starring Ronald Colman and Vilma Bánky. Homer W. McCallon was the theaters director. The theatre adjusted to films with sound and remained in business until the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The theatre was purchased from the Farkas Estate by Oglethorpe Development Group, a minority enterprise which began underwriting a restoration of the theatre as a performing arts center. A 2011 plan was to convert the theater into an apartment building.</p><br>
<p>The Theatre caught fire in the early morning hours of January 24, 2018. Investigators believe the fire was started when vagrants living in the building threw a lit cigarette onto the roof and caught trash on fire. One person died of soot and smoke inhalation. Three other people, believed to be living in the building, were rescued.</p><br>
<p>The Nelson Tift Building, also known as the Goodwill Building or Albany Housefurnishing Company, is a historic four-story commercial building in Albany, Georgia, United States. It was built in 1922 specifically to display furniture.</p><br>
<p>Located at 226 West Broad Avenue, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 17, 1982.(wrong link)</p><br>
<p>It is named for the founder of Albany, Nelson Tift.</p><br>
<p>The Albany Welcome Center, formerly known as the Bridge House, is a historic residential building in Albany, Georgia. It was designed by African American architect and engineer Horace King and built in 1858. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 19, 1974. It is located at 112 North Front Street.</p><br>
<p>Born into slavery, King was granted special rights by the Alabama Legislature in 1858 and was a successful engineer and architect of bridges in the American South. Colonel Nelson Tift hired him in 1858 to build a covered bridge across the Flint River at Albany and King&#39;s design included an adjoining Bridge House that served as a gateway to the city.</p><br>
<p>The home&#39;s cellars were used during the American Civil War for a meat packing operation to feed Confederate soldiers, and ground were used as for the slaughter of thousands of cows, hogs and sheep that were pickled in barrels.</p><br>
<p>On the second floor is a room known as "Tifts Hall" that was made into a theater. It was described as the social center of Albany. Tift hired artists from New York to decorate the halls walls and ceilings with ornate frescoes. The room was used to host actors, hold dances, stage plays, and was also used for Ku Klux Klan meetings.</p><br>
<p>In 1887, Nelson Tift sold his bridge rights to Dougherty County, which later built a new bridge south of the Bridge House. The building was home for several decades to an auto parts store, and following the Flood of 1994, was purchased by Dougherty County as part of downtown Albany&#39;s redevelopment. The Bridge House was meticulously restored under the direction of David Maschke, a local architect, and reopened as the Albany Welcome Center in August 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Davis–Exchange Bank Building is a historic building in Albany, Georgia. It was built during 1919–21 with six stories, making it the tallest building in Albany upon its completion. It is an example of Beaux Arts architecture and was designed by J.E.R. Carpenter of Tennessee. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1984. It is located at 100-102 North Washington Street.</p><br>
<p>The building was built for the Albany Exchange Bank as a replacement for its original building, which had burned down.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Farkas House is a historic residence in Albany, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 9, 1977. It is located at 328 West Broad Avenue.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Farkas (October 25, 1921 - December 30, 2012) was a war hero in World War II and part of the family that operated the New Albany Hotel. He hired Ray Charles to give a performance on piano in the hotel&#39;s basement Continental Room.</p><br>
<p>New Albany Hotel is a historic hotel in Albany, Georgia added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is now being used as an apartment complex known as The Flats @ 249. It was previously being used as a senior living facility known as Albany Heights. It is located at 249 Pine Avenue. Sam Farkas, a World War II hero, was the hotel&#39;s manager.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1925, it a six-story Georgian Revival-style building. It is constructed of terra cotta blocks dressed with brick, upon a concrete and steel frame. Tapestry brick, in Flemish bond, sheathes the first five floors; Dutch Cross bond brick veneer sheathes the sixth floor. It was designed by Atlanta architect Raymond C. Snow.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as "a good example of the early-twentieth century Georgian Revival-style commercial buildings found in small Georgia cities and as one of several Georgian Revival-style buildings built in Albany during this period. In terms of commerce, the hotel is significant as one of two major hotels built in Albany during the 1920s to accommodate travel needs generated by the railroads. In terms of local history, the hotel was a center of Albany social life during the 1920s and 1930&#39;s."</p><br>
<p>The Early County Courthouse  is the historic county courthouse of Early County, Georgia, located on Courthouse Square in Blakely, Georgia, the county seat. It is also a contributing building in the Blakely Court Square Historic District, NRHP-listed in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Early County was chartered in 1818 and Blakely was established as the county seat in 1825. Early County&#39;s first courthouse was a log building, first used in 1827. That building was sold for $13 and moved, making way for the second courthouse. That two-story wooden structure was built in 1834.</p><br>
<p>The county&#39;s third courthouse, a western-facing building, was built in 1857-58 by Thomas Williams for $4,650; it was sold for $155 to make way for the fourth and present courthouse, built in 1904-1905. The third courthouse was described by the Early County News as dangerously unsafe and dilapidated. The proposal to build a new court building "was tinted with a light wash of New South fervor and an outpouring of self-promotion." The grand jury recommended a new courthouse, and a January 1905 piece by the Early County News praised an architectural rendering of the proposed design by the architects Thomas Henry Morgan and John Robert Dillon, as "the handsomest structure of its kind in Southern Georgia", which would "be in keeping with the wealth and prosperity of Early County--the Garden spot of Georgia."</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse is two and half stories and is made of brick on the exterior, with marble floors in the main public spaces. It is in the Neoclassical (Classical Revival) style and is surrounded by smaller buildings, grass, and trees, providing a recreational space and a center for community activities. The courthouse has a low dome, of the Beaux-Arts style.</p><br>
<p>On the courthouse square stands an original wooden Confederate flagpole, erected in 1861, which flies the Stars and Stripes; it was hewn from a long leaf pine harvested about a mile from the county seat. The flagpole is 100 feet tall and is believed to be the only original Confederate flagpole still standing. The courthouse square also contains a monument to the peanut, carved in stone atop a pedestal, commemorating the enduring importance of this cash crop to the region.</p><br>
<p>The William Barker Whiskey Bonding Barn is a historic site near Molena, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 12, 2008. It is located at 9450 Old Zebulon Road. The barn dates to around 1870 and was constructed by William Thomas Barker , a farmer in Pike County, Georgia.</p><br>
<p>It is a -story brick building, built c.1870 as a storehouse for bonded whiskey. It has massive walls punctuated by small barred windows.</p><br>
<p>R. F. Strickland Company is a historic general store business in Concord, Georgia. The company&#39;s records from 1887 to 1914 are held by Emory University. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 26, 1982. It is located at Railroad Street and McLendon Street.</p><br>
<p>The building was the center of the Strickland company empire, consisting of Strickland family farms and over three hundred</p><br>
<p>tenant farms on, at one time, over 30,000 acre of land.</p><br>
<p>The Cedartown Commercial Historic District is a historic district in Cedartown, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The district includes 65 contributing buildings, one other contributing structure, and a contributing object. The majority of buildings are one-story and two-story brick commercial buildings on South Main Street that were built from the 1870s to 1942.</p><br>
<p>The Cedartown Waterworks–Womans Building–Big Spring Park Historic District is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It includes three properties in Polk County, Georgia, west of downtown Cedartown, Georgia: Big Spring Park, the Cedartown Waterworks, and the Cedartown Womans Building.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Hawkes Childrens Library is a historic library building in Cedartown, Georgia. Albert King Hawkes was a childrens library and theater advocate from Atlanta who desired the libraries in Georgias towns. This Hawkes Childrens Library was designed by Neel Reid and built in 1921. It is now a museum operated by the Polk County Historical Society. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 24, 1980. It is located on South College Street.</p><br>
<p>Rockmart Womans Club is a historic building in Rockmart, Georgia. The club was organized in 1906 and became an affiliate of the Georgia Federation of Womens Clubs in 1913. In 1922, the club moved into the eponymous building designed by W. Roy Reece. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places In 1995. It is located on North Marble Street and is part of the Cedartown Waterworks-Woman&#39;s Building-Big Spring Park Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Men of Kent Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Meetinghouse Lane in Scituate, Massachusetts. The cemetery dates from the earliest days of Scituates settlement, estimated to have been established in 1628. It is the towns oldest cemetery, containing the graves of some of its original settlers. The 0.75 acre cemetery is also the site where the town&#39;s first meeting house was built in 1636. The cemetery is so named because Scituate was founded by colonists from the English county of Kent.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Van Dorn House is a historic hilltop residence in Port Gibson, Mississippi built circa 1830 for Peter Aaron Van Dorn and his wife. He was a lawyer from New Jersey who made his fortune in this area, having a practice, gaining political appointments, and becoming a cotton planter. This was the home for years for his large family in Port Gibson, including son Earl Van Dorn. The latter was a career USA Army officer who joined the Confederate Army after the start of the Civil War, ultimately reaching the rank of Major General.</p><br>
<p>A historic marker onsite gives the home&#39;s date as ca. 1830 and the style as Federal architecture. The residence was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 1971. The owners donated the house and surrounding 5.1 acres to the State of Mississippi Department of Archives and History by December 1972. In 1979 a revised site survey, due to the need to protect the site from development of the surrounding area, expanded the historically relevant site to about 20 acres. The house is located on Van Dorn Drive, named after the father.</p><br>
<h2>Family and history</h2><br>
<h2>Peter Van Dorn</h2><br>
<p>Peter Van Dorn was of Dutch descent, born in 1773 and raised in Peapack, New Jersey with nearly a dozen siblings. He was educated at what became Princeton University, studying law. He married and moved to Virginia, where there were many families with ties to Princeton. After his first wife died here, he migrated to the Mississippi Territory when he was 21 years old.</p><br>
<p>He began to practice law in Natchez, Mississippi. Territorial Governor Claiborne appointed him as marshal of Natchez in 1804. Many prospective settlers and their slaves traveled southward along the Natchez Trace, a historic trail from what became Nashville, Tennessee to Natchez.</p><br>
<p>Van Dorn moved north from Natchez to Port Gibson, which he helped to develop, as well as the surrounding Claiborne County alongside the Trace and bordered by the Mississippi River. Governor Claiborne appointed Peter Van Dorn as clerk of the court for Claiborne County in 1810. In 1816 he was appointed as the clerk of the territory&#39;s new House of Representatives (which later became the state legislature).</p><br>
<p>In 1821 the relatively new Mississippi legislature created an Orphan Court system (handling probate matters) and appointed Peter Van Dorn to the circuit including Claiborne County. That same year, the legislature decided to create a new state capital at Jackson, Mississippi. Van Dorn was among the commissioners appointed to plan it. In April 1822 they submitted a plan using a "checkerboard" pattern advocated by Thomas Jefferson, in which city blocks alternated with parks and other open spaces, giving the appearance of a checkerboard (although not always followed by later developers).</p><br>
<p>Van Dorn also became a planter in Mississippi, owning a cotton plantation on the Yazoo River and the numerous enslaved African Americans to work it. In 1826 he bought the land in Port Gibson for his town house.</p><br>
<p>After settling in Port Gibson, about 1812 Van Dorn had married Sophia Donelson Caffery, daughter of a prominent Tennessee family. They had nine children together. She died in early 1831.</p><br>
<p>Sophias grandfather Col. John Donaldson had been an aide to General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. He moved to what became Tennessee, where he helped found Fort Nashborough (which later became Nashville). Sophias aunt Rachel Donelson Caffery had married Andrew Jackson, but died before he was elected as president. Jackson later visited the Van Dorn home in Port Gibson on various trips along the way to New Orleans. This family connection gained son Earl Van Dorn a federal appointment to West Point, the catalyst for his military career.</p><br>
<p>Peter Van Dorn in 1830 traveled to New York and Washington, D.C., with 14-year-old daughter Octavia; they met President Jackson at the White House. Donelson Caffery, a nephew in Louisiana through his wifes family, became a prominent sugar planter, Confederate officer, and was elected by the state legislature as a USA Senator after the American Civil War. Sophias sister Sarah Caffery Walker was the mother of John George Walker (1821-1893), who also became a Confederate general.</p><br>
<p>Peter Aaron Van Dorn also designed McGregor. The house was in the Greek Revival architecture style, built in 1835 for one of his daughters. It was listed on the NRHP in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Major General Earl Van Dorn</h2><br>
<p>Earl Van Dorn was born September 17, 1820, on his familys plantation near Port Gibson. He lived in the Port Gibson town house for part of his childhood. As was typical of planters sons, he was educated privately. As noted, his mother died in early 1831. His father died in 1837, drowning en route to inspect a plantation on the Yahoo River. The younger Van Dorn gained a federal appointment to attend the USA Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating in 1842 and beginning a military career.</p><br>
<p>He married in 1842, to a woman from a prominent Alabama planter family. They had a son and daughter together. Earl Van Dorn won promotions during the Mexican-American War and Seminole War, and became the commanding officer at the border garrison at Mason, Texas by 1860. Supporting secession, he resigned his USA Army commission following President Lincoln&#39;s election and joined the Confederate Army. He rose to become a Confederate general in the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>Earl Van Dorn was known as a womanizer and was said to have fathered three illegitimate, or natural, children. He was called "the terror of ugly husbands". He was fatally shot on May 7, 1863, in Spring Hill, Tennessee, by Dr. George B. Peters, who was often away because of his service as a legislator and had been told that his wife was allegedly having an affair with the general. Peters had caught his much younger wife and Van Dorn embracing in April. Peters was arrested by Union authorities but was not prosecuted, possibly because men were sympathetic to the idea that he was defending his honor. In a twist on the honor issue, his unmarried 15-year-old daughter was pregnant.</p><br>
<p>Both Peter Aaron Van Dorn and Earl Van Dorn were buried in Wintergreen Cemetery in Port Gibson. It is recognized as an historic cemetery and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>One of Earl Van Dorns sisters, Emily Van Dorn, later wrote A Soldiers Honor: With Reminiscences of Major-General Earl Van Dorn, in an effort to clear her brother&#39;s name.</p><br>
<p>The Jewish Cemetery, also known as the Gemiluth Chassed Cemetery, is a historic Jewish cemetery in Port Gibson, Mississippi. The cemetery has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 22, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The cemetery was established in 1871 by Louis Kiefer, Mayer Bock, and Moses Kaufman. Members of the Jewish Cemetery of Port Gibson Association paid an annual fee of US$2.50. They subsequently established a trust fund held by the Southern Mississippi Bank of Port Gibson. It was restored in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Other Jewish cemeteries in Mississippi that are listed in the National Register include Beth Israel Cemetery in Meridian; and the Anshe Chesed Cemetery in Vicksburg. The Natchez City Cemetery includes Jewish Hill, a section dedicated to Jewish burials; and other Jewish cemeteries in Mississippi are the Beth Israel Cemetery in Jackson, and the Hebrew Union Cemetery in Greenville.</p><br>
<p>Possum Poke is a historic hunting retreat outside Poulan, Georgia, United States, and for years was the winter home of Chase Osborn, a former governor of Michigan, author and adventurer. It was a hunting camp. The two main buildings are "Big Poke" and "Little Poke". The "Big Poke" home was owned by Osborn, and he died there in 1949. Stone monuments on the grounds commemorate him and his longtime confidante and second wife Stellanova Osborn, who died in 1988. Though these monuments are sometimes mistaken for the couple&#39;s gravestones, the Osborns are actually buried in Michigan.</p><br>
<p>The site is located on Possum Lane off USA Route 82. It is managed by the Sylvester-Worth County Chamber of Commerce, is open to the public, and is rentable for special events.</p><br>
<p>On April 25, 1974, three marker monuments, two boulders from the Hiawatha National Forest on Lake Superior and a flagpole were dedicated at the site. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 26, 1982. The ownership of Possum Poke transferred from Worth County to the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in March 1999. At the time of the transfer, the condition of the house was deteriorating.</p><br>
<p>Elam–Camp House in Gordon, Georgia is a brick Georgian Revival-style house that was built in 1915. It was designed and built by Robert McMillan, owner of the McMillan Brick Company of Milledgeville.</p><br>
<p>It is located at 216 Jackson Street (the house number is 107 as of 2017) in Gordon, in Wilkinson County, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The house was home of William S. Elam (1846-1923), a veteran of the American Civil War. Elam was a section foreman for the Central of Georgia Railroad in nearby Baldwin County. William R. E. Camp was owner of the house in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It was the first brick house in Gordon and is a good local example of the Georgian Revival style.</p><br>
<p>Campbell-Jordan House, also known as the Campbell-Jordan-Lindsey-Farnell House, is a historic residence situated in Washington, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 1971. It is located at 208 Liberty Street.</p><br>
<p>The Federal architecture-style home was built in 1787 and underwent a Greek Revival architecture-style makeover in 1841, including the addition of large columns. The original cottage was built by William Stith after 1787 and was bought in 1807, by Duncan Campbell who enlarged it. The western part of the structure was likely constructed by Judge Albert Gallatin Semmes. In 1841, Aaron A. Cleveland added the colonnade. The home was the residence of USA Supreme Court Justice and C.S.A. Assistant Secretary of War, John Archibald Campbell.</p><br>
<p>The Old Jail, also known as the Old Wilkes County Jail, located at 15 Court Street in Washington, Georgia was built in 1891. It was built by the McDonald Brothers Company of Louisville. The Old Jail has been on the list of National Register of Historic Places since June 5, 1974. It is a contributing member to the Washington Commercial Historic District, which was included on the National Register of Historic places on March 6, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Old Jail was built in 1891 and was designed by the McDonald Brothers Jail Building Company of Louisville. Kentucky. It replaced an existing jail in Washington was considered unsafe and unsanitary. The 1891 jail was designed to meet the need for a better jail as evidenced by Grand Jury minutes from time to time starting in the 1870s. The Old Jail was built on a site owned by Wilkes County. Two earlier jails were located on the same site but in somewhat different locations. Construction of the first jail started in 1796 and was completed in 1798. It was a brick building with quarters downstairs for the jailer’s family. The prisoners were kept upstairs. A second jail was built on the site in 1817 or 1818, and it remained until the 1891 jail was built.</p><br>
<p>On January 22, 1891, an $8,250 contract was awarded to the McDonald Brothers Jail Building Company to construct a new jail for the growing community. The McDonald Brothers Company was well known for its jail and public building designs throughout the South and Midwest. That Company designed and built many buildings during the last 20 years of the nineteenth century. Many of their works survive and are listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Three of the McDonald Brothers—Harry, Kenneth and Donald—formed the McDonald Brothers Company in 1883. The Company continued until at least 1891. The Louisville city directory listed them all as architects. Harry was president of the McDonald Brothers Building Company as well as president of the Louisville Bottle and Extract Manufacturing Company. Kenneth was the secretary of the jail company, and Donald was its general manager. Both Harry and Donald attended the engineering school of Washington College, and Donald graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1873. Many of their works survive and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The May, 1892 Superior Court Minutes of the Grand Jury expressed great satisfaction with the new jail. The Grand Jury praised the jail’s cleanliness and comfort compared with the former jail. They recommended building a fence and installing blinds for the windows.</p><br>
<p>The Old Jail used an innovative heating system design which closely approached that of an experiment. It was arguably an early version of the duct or forced-air method of heating. A fire was built outside, with the hot air drawn in through a system of moat-like tunnels formed by large limestone blocks; the warm air was then vented through a large chimney. The theory was that the warm air would be conducted through the ducts and transmitted to the cells through the porous limestone walls and floor.</p><br>
<p>Unfortunately, the heating system failed to function as expected and the engineering gaffe was one reason the jail was used for only about 20 years. In presentments published in the June 4, 1895 Wilkes County Chronicle, the County announced it would accept bids on a contract for a new heating system for the jail. The heating system was refurbished with interior fireplaces on the first and second floors and other changes were made, but it is unclear if the changes were effective.</p><br>
<p>The Old Jail continued to limp along because it had other fatal problems: The November 1908 Grand Jury described the jail as a “constant menace.” There were complaints of inadequate space and unsanitary conditions. The History of Wilkes County, Georgia says: “In the twenty years since its first occupancy, escapes had come with alarming frequency and the community would breathe a sigh of relief when the new, more secure, structure opened.” (p. 333) In fact, in March 1911, just as a new jail was being completed, two prisoners escaped from The Old Jail, one who had been incarcerated for murdering his wife and the other who had been jailed for burglary.</p><br>
<p>A new jail was built behind the courthouse in 1911 and The Old Jail became vacant and deteriorated. The building changed hands several times during the 1930s and 1940s. The ground floor was for a time operated as the Royal Café, while the upper floor was used as an apartment.</p><br>
<p>The Old Jail was acquired by new owners in 2019. Current plans are to rehabilitate the building as apartments and live-work space.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two-story building encompasses approximately 1350 square feet and sits on.22 acres.</p><br>
<p>It was designed in the Romanesque Revival style popular during the late nineteenth century. The style is evidenced in the solidarity and strength exhibited in the square brick pillars, the shadow-box plaque and dentil designs, and the rough stone banding.</p><br>
<p>The exterior design reflects the strength of the building. Constructed of red brick in common bond, it fairly square and has a square, hipped metal roof and a belt coursing of rough stone. The front façade follows the covered stairway, under which is a doorway. The original door was a post and lintel, stone-faced doorway.</p><br>
<p>Brick designs include flat gauged apertures between each column, indented square brick patterns, and a brick, dentilled cornice along the stepped and gabled rooflines. A series of small round head arches form a pattern across the gabled portion of the roof. The current six-over-six windows have flat gauged brick work above each window. The windows have been altered to make the openings smaller. What the original windows looked like is unknown. The second-story entrance has the original jail door. The jail had a solitary confinement area just inside the front door and the original iron bars remain.</p><br>
<p>The Old Jail was abandoned and sat vacant from about 1911 until the early 1930s. Thereafter, the building was altered to suit various functions including apartments, a café, and a special event venue. Wood flooring replaced the limestone on the second floor and in parts of the first floor. Many of the limestone blocks were removed and some are used as patios on the east and north sides of the building. Others are located on a separate lot to the north of The Old Jail. Many of the limestone blocks contain easily seen Paleozoic marine fossils, including stromatoporoids (a kind of extinct sea sponge).</p><br>
<p>The building was renovated in the 1970s, including a two-story addition on the north side and a one-story brick addition at the northwest corner. The new structures were used as apartments and special event space until the late 1990s. At some point, probably in the 1990s, a fire significantly damaged both additions. The fire did not impact the original jail structure.</p><br>
<p>Colquitt County Jail is a historic jail building at 126 1st Avenue SE in Moultrie, Georgia that was built in 1915. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The previous jail was a brick building, the second brick building in Moultrie, that was built in 1892 and was torn down in 1953. This jail, built in 1915 just to the north of the old one, is "among the most impressive buildings in Moultrie and is one of the county&#39;s few examples of Gothic Revival architecture." It cost about $28,000.</p><br>
<p>The Carnegie Library of Moultrie is a historic Carnegie Library on a corner lot in downtown Moultrie, Georgia that was built in 1908. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located at 39 North Main Street.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story red brick building with some Georgian Revival elements. Its brick walls are load-bearing and laid in stretcher bond upon a rusticated cut stone foundation. It has quoins made of the same rusticated granite stone. Its front entrance is flanked by pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The building was modified in cosmetic ways in 1973 when the building was converted to law offices.</p><br>
<p>It is one of the oldest public buildings in Moultrie.</p><br>
<p>It is a contributing building in the NRHP-listed Moultrie Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The 1982 NRHP nomination stated that the library&#39;s architect was unknown, but the 1994 nomination document for the district lists T.F. Lockwood as the architect.</p><br>
<p>Wright Hotel is a historic hotel at 201 East Market Street in Chatsworth, in Murray County, Georgia, that was built in 1909. It is a two-story brick building with two-story porches. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination notes that the hotelreflects its local, vernacular, do-it-yourself origins.</p><br>
<p>Built by its owner-operator, Thomas Monroe Wright, and his cousin, Thomas Banks, a builder from Cleveland, Tennessee, it shows few signs of high style architecture. Local materials were used as much as possible. Bricks were manufactured a few blocks away at the now defunct Chatsworth Brick Company. Timber was cut from Mr. Wrights nearby farm and aged for a year before being used in the hotel construction. The surrounding two-story porches made excellent use of one of the areas greatest resources, cool mountain air. The ten foot deep foundation and twelve inch thick exterior walls reflect the care with which Mr. Wright constructed the building. The hotel&#39;s modest scale, simplicity of design and structural solidity give it real integrity. The building no longer functions as a hotel, but it has survived</p><br>
<p>remarkably intact."</p><br>
<p>Warner Robins Train Depot is a historic train depot in Warner Robins, Georgia in Houston County, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 2, 2008. It is located at 99 North Armed Forces Blvd., across the street from the main gate of Robins Air Force Base.</p><br>
<p>It was built during 1943-44 as a combined passenger and freight depot. It is a one-story brick building. It was designed with separate waiting areas for white passengers vs. African-American passengers. In 2007 (and still in 2017) it served as the E.L. Greenway Welcome Center for Warner Robins and the Warner Robins Convention and Visitors Bureau, and it has a caboose, Mildreds Country Store, the Elberta Depot Heritage Center, and World War II Museum.</p><br>
<p>New Perry Hotel is a historic hotel in Perry, Georgia, located at 800 Main Street. It consists of a three-story Neoclassical hotel built in 1925 and a one-story, eight-room Colonial Revival motel, which was built in 1955 and enlarged in 1959 with a pool and cabana. In 1947 a kitchen and banquet hall were built. Between 1955 and 1959 the rear lobby was converted into the motel office and a card room was built. The original full-height portico was altered in 1965. The round Tuscan columns were replaced by square Tuscan columns.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architects Dennis and Dennis; Davenport Guerry was the landscape architect.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 1, 2004. The hotel closed about 2014.</p><br>
<p>As of July 22, 2024, the Hotel is being demolished in order to build a new commercial building, just a year shy of the Hotel&#39;s 100th anniversary.</p><br>
<p>James W. Baugh Homeplace is a former residence in Blue Ridge, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, at which time it was the Baugh House Museum. It is located at 411 West First Street, Blue Ridge, GA 30513.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as a "rare two-story masonry I-house residence with Folk Victorian style elements." It was built in 1890 by James W. Baugh (1862-1915) and his brothers, all skilled masons, using bricks made on the site, to serve as home for James and his wife. James had moved to Blue Ridge from Polk County, Tennessee in c.1890 with his wife, Mary Theresa Geisler (1871-1962).</p><br>
<p>The property was deeded to the city of Blue Ridge in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The building is now operated as the Fannin County Historical Museum by the Fannin County Heritage Foundation. It is also known as the Baugh House Museum.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Wallace House is a historic home located at Petersburg, Virginia. It was built about 1855, and is a two-story, three-bay, pressed brick dwelling in the Italianate style. It sits on a raised basement and has a low hipped roof with bracketed cornice. It has a one-story rear service wing and a front porch supported by six fluted Greek Doric order columns. On April 3, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant met in its library to discuss the inevitable end to the American Civil War and the surrender.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It is located in the South Market Street Historic District. It is located 204 South Market, Petersburg.</p><br>
<p>McIlwaine House, also known as the Jones-McIlwaine House, is a historic home located at Petersburg, Virginia. It was built in 1815, and is a -story, Federal style frame dwelling with a -story wing. It has a front porch with a modillioned cornice supported by Doric order columns. The house was moved eight blocks to its present location in 1972.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Battersea is a historic plantation home located on the Appomattox River at Petersburg, Virginia. It was built in 1768 for USA Founding Father Colonel John Banister , the first mayor of Petersburg, a colonel of cavalry in the Revolutionary War, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses delegate to the Continental Congress, and signer of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, Virginia State Constitution, and the Articles of Confederation. It is a symmetrical five-part Palladian house consisting of a two-story central block topped by a pyramidal roof, one-story wings that act as hyphens, and 1 1/2-story end pavilions. Although modeled in the Palladian style, its unique character is adapted to a colonial American lifestyle. Battersea is similar in design to the Palladian mansion at Lower Brandon Plantation in nearby Prince George, also completed in the 1760s and perhaps designed by Thomas Jefferson. Although the designer of Battersea remains a mystery, he would have been conversant in European tastes of the day. Also on the property are the contributing greenhouse and a kitchen, which may have additionally served as a laundry and servants’ quarter. The brick greenhouse, or orangerie, is significant for its rarity and design. Built between 1825-1835, it is almost 190 years old and remains one of the few of its kind still in existence. The ruins of Bannister&#39;s Mill, a gristmill built in 1732, are located nearby on land that was part of Battersea plantation in the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>Battersea has been privately owned since 2006, and was purchased by the Battersea Foundation in 2011. Battersea Foundation is a nonprofit whose mission is to preserve Historic Battersea and offer educational, artistic and cultural experiences that inform, enrich and inspire the public. They host several events at Battersea throughout the year.</p><br>
<p>Battersea was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.</p><br>
<p>The Clinton African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a historic church at 9 Elm Court in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. It was the first African American church in Berkshire County, and it was a place where noted Great Barrington native W.E.B. Du Bois is known to have attended services. The Shingle style church was completed in 1887, and continues to serve as a center of African American worship in southern Berkshire County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>African Americans have been resident in Berkshire County, Massachusetts since colonial days. Some were slaves, while others were either freemen or escaped slaves. Prior to the establishment of the Clinton AME church, these people attended church services with the county&#39;s white population. After the American Civil War there was an influx of southern African Americans into the area, and an informal AME congregation began to take shape as early as the 1860s. In 1881, this congregation, consisting of a blend of newer southern and older northern African American families, acquired the land on Elm Court where their church would be erected in 1887. Challenges in raising funds postponed the beginning of construction until 1886, and the church was officially dedicated the following year. The Shingle style structure cost $4,275. Attendees of the church are known to include the future civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois, whose uncle was active in the congregation. Its membership is responsible for the establishment of other African American church congregations elsewhere in the county.</p><br>
<p>In 1938, after a successful fundraising campaign, the congregation added a parsonage to the property. The church basement was finished in the 1940s and 1950s to provide a location for social functions, and the church has since then had its original doors and windows replaced, albeit in a historically sensitive way. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The basic structure of the church as built in the 1880s was a rectangular block measuring 55 by 24, with a truss roof. The gable ends of the building were shingled with decorative shingles. A 30 ft tower is attached at the northeast corner of the building, which also provides a vestibule space separating the main entrance from the sanctuary. The sanctuary measures 39 by 24, lined with twenty pews; there are four windows on each side, containing some stained glass decoration. The pulpit, made of ash, stands to the right, while a platform for the choir and organ stands to the left at the front of the sanctuary. The sanctuary walls were originally wainscoted; this work has been covered by paneling. Behind the sanctuary is a vestry room, somewhat altered from the original by the addition of the parsonage in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>When originally built, the church had a trap door in the southeast corner to gain access to the basement. In 1951 this was replaced by stairs to provide access to the finished basement space. The basement space has a low ceiling, and roughly matches the dimensions of the sanctuary above. A space on the west side of the basement houses kitchen facilities and the church&#39;s heating system, which extend to some extent under the parsonage.</p><br>
<p>The parsonage has a basic center hall floor plan, with the living room occupying part of the original church vestry. The second floor contains three bedrooms and a bathroom. The parsonage space is little altered since its construction in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>Tate Gymnasium is a historic building in Tate, Georgia built in 1923 to serve the local high school. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 2002. It is located at 5600 Georgia 53 East.</p><br>
<p>It was built by Col. Sam Tate, president of Georgia Marble Company, workers of that company, and other "community artisans", with all expenses paid by the Colonel and the Georgia Marble Company.</p><br>
<p>Pickens County Jail is a historic jail building in Jasper, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 12, 1984. It is located on North Main Street.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Atlanta architect James W. Golucke. Jail cells were provided by Pauly Jail Company of St. Louis, Missouri.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story, brick and marble building. Its marble facade, marble porch columns, and turrets are done in a rusticated style. It was deemed notable as a county jail building somewhat unusual for its incorporation of local marble into its construction.</p><br>
<p>Pickens County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Jasper, Georgia, the county seat of Pickens County, Georgia. It was designed by Bothwell & Nash and built in 1949. The exterior includes marble from Tate, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 29, 2008. It is located at 50 North Main Street.</p><br>
<h2>Website</h2><br>
<p>https://pickensgacourts.org/</p><br>
<p>The Cagle House is a historic house in an area known as Cagletown, Jasper, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 20, 2002. It is located on Waleska Highway 108, approximately miles west of Georgia 5/515.</p><br>
<p>It was built as an I-house by Peter Cagle, the younger (b. 1844) and wife, Martha Emeline Carpenter with the assistance of Peter&#39;s brothers and their father, Martin. It was modified in the 1930s. It was moved about 75 ft back from the road in the 1980s, restoring setback lost when the road was widened.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Located in south central Pickens County just north of the Cherokee County line, the Cagle House was built in 1871 by Peter Cagle. In 1839, Peter (b. 1775), hereafter referred to as "the elder," and Rachel Cagle migrated from Moore County, North Carolina, to Cherokee County, Georgia, with their four adult children. The Cagle migration was originally intended to continue to Mississippi where the family planned to purchase land and farm cotton, but the Cagles remained in Georgia after spending the winter of 1839–1840 in Cherokee County. There they were employed at Keith Plantation completing work on the plantation house and building furniture. Peter and Rachel Cagles youngest child, twenty-three year old Martin Cagle (b. 1816), brought his wife Mary OBrien Cagle (b. 1817) and one- year-old son John with him from North Carolina and settled with other family members on Hickory Log Creek in Cherokee County just north of Canton. Martin worked as a blacksmith, cabinet maker and carpenter, and with his wife raised a family of eleven children (John M., b. 1838, William, b.1840, Lutisha, b. 1842, Peter, b. 1844, Levi, b. 1847, Francis M., b. 1849, Loucinda, b. 1852, Lorinda, b. 1854, Nancy, b. 1855, Mary M., b. 1857, and Fanny I., b. 1859), all of whom, with the exception of eldest son John, were born in Cherokee County between 1840 and 1859.</p><br>
<p>Martin Cagles four oldest sons (John, William, Peter and Levi) initially claimed conscientious objector status during the Civil War, and as an alternative to serving in the Confederate Army were permitted to work in an iron factory at Lost Town in Cherokee County. When this facility was burned by Shermans troops, the brothers were advised that they would be given no protection from the Pro- Southern McCollum&#39;s Raiders, a terrorist band that robbed and often killed Union sympathizers in Cherokee and nearby counties. John, William, Peter and Levi Cagle, and brother-in-law Zach T. Evans, therefore joined the Union Army and sought protection by moving to Cartersville until the end of the war. Within a few years the brothers began acquiring land in Pickens County, which had voted against secession. Peter Cagle, here after referred to as "the younger," married Martha Emeline Carpenter on December 29, 1870.</p><br>
<p>In May 1869, brothers John M. and William Cagle acquired 260 acres of land in south central Pickens County from the estate auction of William J. Nelson. Both men moved to Pickens County sometime during 1869, as they are listed in the 1870 census. In February 1871, Peter and Levi Cagle purchased 130 acres of land from Abraham Crow located just to the west of that previously acquired by their brothers. The Cagle House was built c.1871 by Peter Cagle (the younger) with the assistance of his brothers who were all trained as carpenters as was their father, Martin. That the Cagle House is two stories in height was unusual as Peter Cagle&#39;s brothers all built themselves one- story dwellings. The account passed down through the Cagle family is that Peter was trying to impress his father-in-law who owned a large two-story house in Cherokee County. Martin Cagle remained in Cherokee County at least until 1870, as he is listed in the census as residing in Cherokee County that year, but he and his fifth son, Frances M. Cagle, (b. 1849), joined the other four sons in Pickens County in the early 1870s and helped settle the area that soon became known as Cagletown.</p><br>
<p>Peter Cagle (the younger) undertook a fairly diverse variety of farming, as did his four brothers. All acquired additional lands during the 1870s and 1880s, and according to the 1880 census Peter owned a total of 105 acres that year. He had 45 improved acres in 1880, on which he produced 200 bushels of corn, 110 bushels of wheat, 50 bushels of apples and four bales of cotton. He also was recorded as owning 20 chickens, 10 swine, six sheep, two head of cattle and one milk cow, and cut 15 cords of wood on his property. This level and type of production is similar to that of the other four Cagle brothers in 1880, and that year the five brothers together owned a total of 629 acres, all in south central Pickens County. They would eventually own more than 1,000 acres in the Cagletown area.</p><br>
<p>It is difficult to isolate the agricultural and business activities conducted at the various Cagle properties, for the brothers worked together and for all practical purposes functioned as a team in their various undertakings. One of the most important components of those endeavors was Cagle&#39;s Mill, located on Sharp Mountain Creek on the property initially purchased by John and William Cagle in 1869. The site became a complex that included a gristmill, saw mill, cotton gin and distillery, which was operated for several years through a license with the Federal government. The Cagles ground mash at their gristmill and produced whiskey that was usually sold in Atlanta. This venture was important to the Cagles for bringing in cash that was used primarily for the acquisition of additional land in the area. Peter Cagle is believed to have owned a greater percentage of the distillery than did his brothers. Remains of the mill complex, located approximately a mile southeast of the Cagle House, are still visible on Sharp Mountain Creek.</p><br>
<p>Peter and Martha Cagle had eleven children, although two died at birth. Their first child, Lewis M. Cagle, was born on October 30, 1871, while their last child, Peter S. Cagle, was born on May 12, 1893, only two years before his fathers death. It is therefore likely that all of Peter and Martha Cagles children, with the possible exception of Lewis, were born in the Cagle House. In 1908 Martin Cicero Cagle, the third son of Peter and Martha, re-acquired his father&#39;s property. During the early decades of the twentieth century, the agricultural and business activities at the Cagle House property remained diverse. Martin Cicero Cagle planted cotton and also grew corn and peas and had a variety of animals. The Cagle brothers operated a "shop" on the opposite side of the road from the house, and this facility was used for blacksmithing work, woodworking and automobile repair. The Cagles were some of the earliest auto repairmen in the area and were known for being able to service the first Model Ts. Cagle Mill continued to operate during this time as well. Martin also worked for a time at the Georgia Marble Company in nearby Tate. In the 1940s the Cagles became some of the first farmers in Pickens County to become involved with poultry production, and to this day several members of the Cagle family remain active in the industry.</p><br>
<p>Martin Cicero Cagle married Annie Townsend and the couple had eight children. Annie died in 1924 and Martin Cicero married Alice Barnett two years later. Martin Cicero Cagle died in December 1956 and gave his second wife, Alice, a life tenancy in the property. When Alice Cagle died in 1969 the property was acquired by three of Martin Cagle&#39;s grandchildren, Mary Annie Cagle Parker (b. 1928), Robert Thomas Cagle (b. 1929), and Mildred Sue Cagle Mullinax (b. 1936), all of whom were children of Oman Clyde and Laura Belle Pittman Cagle. The three divided the property, with the Cagle House itself going to Mary Annie Cagle Parker. In 1980 James Thomas Eubanks, Jr., son of Mary Louise Cagle and James Thomas Eubanks, Sr., purchased the Cagle House from Mary Annie Cagle Parker. The Cagle House was purchased by the Mora family in 2018.</p><br>
<p>The Mahaiwe Block is a commercial and theater building in the heart of downtown Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In addition to smaller businesses, it houses the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, the town&#39;s only major performance space. It has been in virtually continuous operation since its construction in 1905. The building is located at 6-14 Castle St. and 314-322 Main St, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s condition and fate in the 1990s was a major contributing factor in the establishment of local preservation ordinances. The building takes its name from an earlier structure on the site, which its owner called "Mahaiwe House".</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Performance Center opened in September 1905 as a vaudeville house, it became a movie theater in the mid 1920s. The last company that showed first run films there, the Hoyts Theater chain, sold it to the Berkshire Opera Company and today shows classic films.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Mahaiwe Block is a roughly rectangular three-storey building, presenting long facades to both Main and Castle Streets. Its exterior is finished in pale brick, with marble trim elements and a pressed metal entablature. White marble belt courses separate the floors. The Main Street facade includes two storefronts and an Art Deco building entrance, the product of a 1929 remodeling by a banking tenant. The Castle Street facade has a row of round-arch windows, three commercial storefronts, and the main entrance to the theater. The theater entrance has three sets of double doors, set in a large two-story round-arch opening, which is sheltered by the theaters 1930 marquee. The marquee is supported by chains and has a scrolled top. The street-facing portion of the marquee bears the theaters name in illuminated letters, a detail repeated in compressed form on the sides, above the panels showing the facility&#39;s current offerings.</p><br>
