{"nrhp_refnum":"02000097","name":"Buckhead Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Main St. and Parks Mill, Seven Islands and Baldwin Dairy Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Buckhead","county":"Morgan County","state":"GA","lat":33.567643410000045,"lon":-83.36313902699077,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-03-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Black","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district covering the center of the small railroad town of Buckhead in Morgan County, Georgia, about eight miles east of Madison. It includes houses, brick commercial buildings, churches, a jail, a school gymnasium and an African-American neighborhood, dating from 1890 onward.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is an intact example of a small rural Georgia town that grew up along the Central of Georgia Railroad, which arrived in 1837. It is significant for architecture, community planning and development, transportation, and Black ethnic heritage. The houses, commercial row, churches and gymnasium show typical small-town Georgia types and styles.","narrative":"Buckhead is a small rural town in the Georgia Piedmont, and its historic core is a district of about 94 acres built around the railroad that reached it in 1837. The district holds simple frame houses in Folk Victorian and Craftsman styles, a row of three attached brick commercial buildings from 1890 to 1906, a detached brick store from 1904, a 1910 brick jail that now serves as town hall, and two churches. A 1939 brick gymnasium recalls the town's school. Along Saffold and Perryman roads lies a historically African-American neighborhood with saddlebag, hall-parlor and gabled-ell houses, a Masonic lodge and a c. 1950 school. The district was listed for architecture, community planning and development, transportation, and Black ethnic heritage. It is presented as a good example of a railroad strip-type town whose cotton-based economy grew with the Central of Georgia line. Its period of significance runs from 1890 to 1951.","period_of_significance":"1890-1951","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman; Folk Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still a small rural incorporated town. The post office, town hall (former jail), churches and houses remain in use, and some parcels in the old commercial block are vacant. The former school is now a residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.356928-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/02000097.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209031","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckhead_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55316131"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/morgan-county/buckhead-historic-district-02000097/"}