{"nrhp_refnum":"02001221","name":"Bostwick Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of Bostwick Rd. and Fairplay Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bostwick","county":"Morgan County","state":"GA","lat":33.736620357500044,"lon":-83.51501181116893,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-10-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture","Community Planning and Development","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural historic district in the small town of Bostwick, north Morgan County, Georgia, with 70 contributing resources including houses, stores, churches, cemeteries, cotton-processing buildings and fields, dating from c.1859 to c.1954.","why_significant":"The district is presented as a good example of a Georgia rural town built on cotton growing and processing, founded by John Bostwick, Sr. It is significant in agriculture, industry, architecture and community planning, with an intact town plan laid out in 1908 and 1912 and a T-shaped street layout. Its buildings represent house types and styles popular in small Georgia towns from the late 19th to early 20th century.","narrative":"Bostwick is a small farming town in north Morgan County, Georgia, surrounded by agricultural land. Its historic district holds houses with outbuildings, brick stores, three churches, two cemeteries, two cotton fields and a group of cotton-processing buildings, built between about 1859 and the mid-1950s. John Bostwick, Sr. began a supply business in 1892, opened the Bostwick Manufacturing Company in 1901 with a cottonseed oil mill and gin, and built the Susie Agnes Hotel in 1902. He later subdivided land for residential neighborhoods in 1908 and 1912, producing a surviving grid plan and an unusual T-shaped arrangement of main streets. The town was founded as a processing center for local crops, with the railroad arriving about a decade afterward. Architecture ranges from his Neoclassical Revival Georgian house to Queen Anne and Georgian cottages, Craftsman houses and a 1950s International-style school. The district was listed for its ties to the cotton industry, to Bostwick himself, and to its intact buildings and plan.","period_of_significance":"c.1859-c.1954","architect_builder":"W.D. Calvin (Susie Agnes Hotel)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Neoclassical Revival, Folk Victorian, Craftsman, International Style, plus vernacular types (double pen, hall-parlor, central hallway, Georgian cottage, gabled ell, Queen Anne cottage, New South cottage)","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Historic functions continue today, including houses, hotel, stores, churches, cemeteries and cotton gin buildings. The former elementary school is now a city-owned community center.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.076409-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/02001221.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209029","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostwick_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85748394"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/morgan-county/bostwick-historic-district-02001221/"}