{"nrhp_refnum":"04000628","name":"Murray County High School Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1004 Green St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chatsworth","county":"Murray County","state":"GA","lat":34.77711948350006,"lon":-84.78868450823326,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-06-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A public school campus at 1004 Green Street in Chatsworth, Murray County, Georgia, built between 1934 and 1956 as Murray County High School. It includes four early rock buildings, a brick gymnasium, 1950s classroom buildings and an athletic field.","why_significant":"The district is significant under Criterion A for education and agriculture, because it housed the county's consolidated white high school and an innovative agricultural program with a community cannery. Under Criterion C it is significant for architecture, since it shows two distinct periods of Georgia school design: 1930s stone buildings with Spanish Colonial Revival and Craftsman features, and postwar International style brick buildings.","narrative":"This school campus on Green Street in Chatsworth, Georgia, grew from a consolidated county high school opened in 1934. The first building, known locally as the Rock Building, was faced with stone salvaged from a nearby highway project and laid by stonemasons Homer Watkins and his son J.D. Home Economics, Cannery and Agriculture buildings followed in 1935 and 1936, all in rock. A brick gymnasium, athletic field and several flat-roofed classroom buildings were added between 1949 and 1956. The campus matters for two reasons. Its buildings show a shift from 1930s stone design with Spanish Colonial Revival and Craftsman touches to postwar International style brick construction. It also hosted an agricultural program that farmed over a hundred acres and ran a cannery used by families across the county. All public high school students in Murray County studied here from 1934 to 1989, and the original complex now serves as a middle school.","period_of_significance":"1934-1956","architect_builder":"Watkins, Homer-builder; Watkins, J.D.-builder","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Spanish Colonial Revival; Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements/Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The original high school complex now serves as Bagley Middle School in the Murray County public school system.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.379826-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/04000628.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209055","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/murray-county/murray-county-high-school-historic-district-04000628/"}