{"nrhp_refnum":"00000072","name":"Boneville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of Boneville Rd. and the Georgia RR, approx. 5 mi. SE of Thomson","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boneville","county":"McDuffie County","state":"GA","lat":33.43227859000004,"lon":-82.43621215617472,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-02-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Industry","Education","Entertainment/Recreation","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural historic district in the unincorporated community of Boneville, about five miles southeast of Thomson in McDuffie County, Georgia, built along the Georgia Railroad. It holds 19 contributing buildings plus a site and three structures, including houses, stores, a church, a school and a mill.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be locally significant for its collection of late 19th and early 20th century buildings representing common Georgia house and community types. It is also significant as a railroad strip town with the tracks running down the middle of the community. The c.1845 Boneville Mill, the mill pond used for 1930s recreation, and the landscape add significance in industry, education, recreation and landscape architecture.","narrative":"Boneville is a small rural community about five miles southeast of Thomson, in McDuffie County, Georgia. The historic district covers about 80 acres laid out along the Georgia Railroad, which reached the town in 1837, with Boneville Road running parallel to the tracks. It includes one-story houses of several traditional types, a two-story house built about 1881, two stores (one now the post office), a Methodist church built in 1902 with its cemetery, a one-room school from 1903, and a mill pond. The wood-framed Boneville Mill, dating from about 1845, is large and old for a mill of its kind in Georgia, though it is in poor condition. In the 1930s the pond became Camellia Lake, a popular recreation spot with a bath house and gazebo. The district was listed for its architecture, its railroad strip town plan, and its industrial, educational, recreational and landscape history between about 1845 and 1935.","period_of_significance":"c.1845-1935","architect_builder":"Unknown.","architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Folk Victorian; Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Most dwellings are occupied and the post office still operates. The Boneville Mill is in very poor condition and has not operated since a 1941 flood. The Smith-Hunt-Doughty House has been unoccupied for about thirty years but has been stabilized.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.397156-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/00000072.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208900","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116465325"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/mcduffie-county/boneville-historic-district-00000072/"}