{"nrhp_refnum":"05000644","name":"Georgia Marble Company and Tate Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Centered on GA 53 bet GA 5 and Long Swamp Creek","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tate","county":"Pickens County","state":"GA","lat":34.416959434000034,"lon":-84.38826108154136,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-06-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture","Engineering","Community Planning and Development","Industry"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A privately owned company-town historic district in Tate, Pickens County, Georgia, centered on Georgia Highway 53. It combines marble quarries, finishing plants, a railroad spur, worker housing, churches, a school and a gymnasium built mainly between 1884 and the 1930s.","why_significant":"The district is a Georgia Marble Company town where the quarrying and finishing of marble shaped the community. The form describes the company's quarries, finishing sheds and railroad, and the housing and civic buildings Col. Sam Tate had built between 1905 and 1930. Marble is used in the school, the gymnasium foundation, the Tate House and the cemeteries.","narrative":"Tate, in the mountains of Pickens County, Georgia, is a company town built around the Georgia Marble Company. Streets wind along ridges and valleys beside Georgia Highway 53, with houses on high ground and the quarries in the Long Swamp Creek valley to the east. A railroad spur threads through town to the quarries and finishing sheds. Most homes are modest one-story pyramidal cottages, shotgun and saddlebag houses, and Craftsman bungalows built from about 1900 to 1930. Col. Sam Tate, company president from 1905, laid out much of the community and had company carpenters build the housing. Marble appears throughout the town: Tate High School of 1928 is faced in marble, the Tate Gymnasium of 1923 rests on a marble foundation, and the Tate House of 1923 is built of Etowah pink marble. Two Gothic Revival Methodist churches date from 1887, and Smoky Hollow preserves part of the African-American community. Together these resources show how marble quarrying shaped the town's work, housing and civic life.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Walker and Walker (Tate House); J. B. Hill (Tate High School); Georgia Marble Company carpenters under Luther Cartwright","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals (Late Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival); Bungalow/Craftsman; pyramidal cottage, central-hall house, saddlebag, shotgun house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Quarries, finishing plants, school, churches, cemeteries and houses remain in use. Some earlier buildings, including a hotel and drugstore, burned and no longer exist.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.147347-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/05000644.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000644/431b255b83-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000644/431b255b83-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Gwringle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%26N_Depot,_Tate,_GA_from_Hwy_53.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Gwringle</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:L%26N_Depot,_Tate,_GA_from_Hwy_53.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209249","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Marble_Company_and_Tate_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105753070"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/pickens-county/georgia-marble-company-and-tate-historic-district-05000644/"}