{"nrhp_refnum":"04001349","name":"Hawkinsville Commercial and Industrial Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Dooly, Broad, Houston, and 3rd Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hawkinsville","county":"Pulaski County","state":"GA","lat":32.28523704200006,"lon":-83.46689363118503,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-12-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Industry","Community Planning and Development","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 138 resources in Hawkinsville, the county seat of Pulaski County, Georgia, on a bluff above the Ocmulgee River. It combines a two-block downtown commercial core with a crescent of cotton, peanut and pecan industrial buildings.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant under Criteria A and C at the local level, in architecture, commerce, industry, community planning and development, and politics/government. It shows Hawkinsville's growth as a river, rail and cotton-trading center, and its later shift to peanut and pecan processing. It also contains a range of commercial and civic architecture from Italianate to International Style.","narrative":"Hawkinsville's downtown and industrial belt sit on a bluff above the Ocmulgee River in central Georgia. The district pairs a two-block commercial core along Commerce Street with cotton, peanut and pecan processing buildings that curve around the north, south and east sides of the city. Downtown, one- and two-story brick storefronts display Italianate, Classical Revival, Romanesque Revival and Art Deco styling. Landmarks include the 1880 Dortch Building, the 1907 City Hall and Auditorium, the 1908 hotel building, the 1917 firehouse and the Pulaski County Courthouse. The industrial side includes gins, mills, warehouses, silos and elevators, mostly from the early 1900s through the 1950s. The district was recognized for its architecture and for what it shows about local commerce and industry. Rail connections arrived in 1868 and 1902, and cotton gave way to peanuts and pecans after the Depression. Its period of significance runs from about 1830 to 1954.","period_of_significance":"c.1830-1954","architect_builder":"A.V. Bryan & Co (Pulaski County Courthouse); E.A. Burch (Dortch Building); W. R. Gunn (City Hall/Auditorium); J. L. Huggins (contractor); J.C. Keel (Dortch Building builder); Louis A. Simon (Supervising Architect of the Treasury)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Italianate, Romanesque), Classical Revival, Italian Renaissance, Colonial Revival, International Style, Art Deco, and brick, wood-frame and metal-frame warehouses","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The district is mostly in active commercial, government and industrial use. The Union Passenger Station is used as offices and storage, and the rail depot function is listed as vacant or not in use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.960969-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/04001349.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001349/e519ee4635-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001349/e519ee4635-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Benchmarkcomputer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hawkinsville_Downtown.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Benchmarkcomputer</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hawkinsville_Downtown.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209285","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkinsville_Commercial_and_Industrial_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29093519"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/pulaski-county/hawkinsville-commercial-and-industrial-historic-district-04001349/"}