Sarah Murphy Born in 1892 to Gabriel and Huldah McLendon, former slaves on an Alabama plantation, Sarah McLendon was the tenth of eleven children. Her mother passed away when Sarah was just four...
Gage Griffith, a photographer and journalist from Trenton, New Jersey, now calls Rome, Georgia, home. Began as an urban explorer, spending his Teenage years wandering through ghost towns in the South Jersey Pines, drawn to their solitude and mystery. Over time, this fascination grew into a deep appreciation for the history of forgotten landmarks of the past. Gage earned a degree in education from Rowan University, further enriching his love of preserving the past.
Sarah Murphy Born in 1892 to Gabriel and Huldah McLendon, former slaves on an Alabama plantation, Sarah McLendon was the tenth of eleven children. Her mother passed away when Sarah was just four...
One Mans Junk… Old Car City, U.S.A. traces its roots back to 1931 when Walter Lewis opened a small general store in White, Georgia a tiny town incorporated just over a decade earlier in 1919...
Cedar Hill School’s Cedar Hill holds a significant place in the history of the Polk County community of Cedartown. Built in 1955 in a rural area, it operated for many years as a segregated high...
Northwest Probation Detention Center (NPDC) Built in 1998 and located in Cedartown, Georgia, the Northwest Probation Detention Center (NPDC) was a minimum-security facility operated by the Georgia...
Euharlee School In the late 1800s, the Rockmart School System operated out of Zion Hill First Baptist Church. After a storm destroyed the church in the early 1900s, a four-room school was constructed...
Hancock County Vocational Technical School Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to uncover much information about this location beyond what we found on the building’s cornerstone. If you have any...
Army Hospital to State Hospital Battey State Hospital has a rich history dating to its establishment in 1943 during World War II. Originally, it served as a temporary Army General Hospital and was...
In 1908, a group of local women founded the Americus & Sumter County Hospital Association. Their efforts to generate community support and secure funding for a modern medical facility culminated...
Owned by the County Constructed in 1967 in Sparta, Georgia, the 26-bed Hancock County Hospital (Hancock Memorial Hospital) was built at a cost of approximately $375,000. It boasted an emergency room...
Constructed in 1895, the Monticello United Methodist Church is a Carpenter Gothic-style structure that replaced a previous building demolished by a tornado in the 1890s. Its construction cost totaled...
Rivers Hospital The Rivers State Prison was originally established in 1940 as Rivers Hospital, an independent facility within the Central State Hospital grounds in Milledgeville, Georgia, it focused...
The County Hospital Established by the county Hospital Authority in 1962 just outside Newnan, Georgia, CCGH (Coweta General Hospital) was a public hospital created to serve the less affluent...
Edwin Gardner Weed School The Weed School was founded in 1936 in Augusta, Georgia, as an elementary school for Black children, this property, dedicated to the memory of the late Reverend Edwin Weed...
The Chatillon Corporation In 1928, The Chatillon Corporation Silk Mills of Milan relocated to Rome, Georgia, where it transformed into the American Chatillon Corporation. The primary focus of this...
GMHI Foundations Established in 1965 as a collaborative effort between the State of Georgia and Emory University, the facility known as Georgia Mental Health Institute served as the state’s...
Allen’s Invalid Home for Nervous Disorders Allen’s Invalid Home for Nervous Disorders stood as one of the pioneering private psychiatric facilities in the Southern United States. It also...
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