{"nrhp_refnum":"03000429","name":"Rutledge Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Centered along Main St., The Georgia Railroad (CSX), E. Dixis Hwy, and Fairplay Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rutledge","county":"Morgan County","state":"GA","lat":33.626387202000046,"lon":-83.61147829516358,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A linear historic district covering the small railroad town of Rutledge in Morgan County, Georgia, about nine miles west of Madison. It contains houses, brick commercial buildings, churches, a depot, a cemetery and farmland that developed along the Georgia Railroad and the Dixie Highway.","why_significant":"The district is an intact example of a small, agriculturally based railroad strip town in the Georgia Piedmont. It is significant in architecture for its houses, commercial buildings and community landmarks, and in community planning and transportation for its ties to the Georgia Railroad (reached 1845) and the Dixie Highway. It is significant under Criteria A and C at the local level.","narrative":"Rutledge is a small Georgia Piedmont town in Morgan County, about nine miles west of Madison, that grew up around the Georgia Railroad. The district includes brick commercial buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries with original storefronts and cast iron columns, plus houses ranging from saddlebag and gabled-ell cottages to Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, Neoclassical and Craftsman examples. Community landmarks include the 1877 Moses Chapel AME Church in the Pea Ridge Community, Rutledge Baptist Church, a c. 1920 former city hall, a 1919 depot, a historic cemetery and a cotton field. Rutledge began in 1845 as a service stop with a roundhouse when the railroad line reached the area, and cotton shaped its economy into the 1920s. The Dixie Highway later added to its importance, with the Rutledge-to-Madison section among the first paved rural roads in Georgia. The period of significance runs from 1845 to 1953.","period_of_significance":"1845-1953","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Folk Victorian, and vernacular house types (saddlebag, gabled ell, I-house, Georgian cottage, New South cottage); Commercial Vernacular Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The district retains a high degree of integrity. The c. 1920 former city hall is used for storage, the 1919 depot was fire-damaged in 1988 but keeps its walls, and a historic field is still planted in cotton.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.557361-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/03000429.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209041","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141781825"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/morgan-county/rutledge-historic-district-03000429/"}