{"nrhp_refnum":"00000070","name":"Blackshear Depot","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"200 S. Central Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Blackshear","county":"Pierce County","state":"GA","lat":31.302743923000037,"lon":-82.24111213599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-02-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick railroad depot at 200 South Central Avenue in Blackshear, the Pierce County seat in Georgia, built in 1917 by the Savannah, Florida, and Western Railroad Company.","why_significant":"The depot is a good example of an early twentieth-century brick passenger and freight depot, with distinct passenger, office and freight sections typical of small-town Georgia. It is also the town's only railroad-related building and represents the railroad's central role in founding and sustaining Blackshear and its agricultural economy. Its freight warehouse interior survives unaltered.","narrative":"Built in 1917 by the Savannah, Florida, and Western Railroad Company, this long, low brick depot sits one block south of Blackshear's business district, beside city hall and the city park. It follows the familiar Georgia small-town pattern, with passenger waiting rooms, offices and a freight room under a wide-eaved hipped roof with brackets. Walls are two-colored brick in Flemish bond, and the freight section keeps its elevated wooden loading platform, original scales, plank floors and exposed rafters. Blackshear and Pierce County grew directly from the railroad, which carried cotton, timber and other crops to distant markets. The depot replaced an earlier wooden station that burned, and the old building was reused for freight. Passenger trains stopped in the late 1950s and freight service ended in the mid-1970s. The city bought the property in 1978, and it now holds offices, including the county chamber of commerce. It is the town's only surviving railroad-related building.","period_of_significance":"1917-1950","architect_builder":"Savannah, Florida, and Western Railroad Company","architectural_style":"OTHER: depot","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Freight service ended in the mid-1970s and the depot was vacated; later the City bought it in 1978, and it now serves government office use, including the Pierce County Chamber of Commerce. The freight area is used for storage and remains unaltered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.868201-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/00000070.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000070/2848fb72f8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000070/2848fb72f8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blackshear_Depot,_Blackshear,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blackshear_Depot,_Blackshear,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209261","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackshear_station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39619004"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/pierce-county/blackshear-depot-00000070/"}