{"nrhp_refnum":"06000124","name":"Crawfordville Historic District","other_names":["Liberty Hall","A.H. Stephens Memorial State Park"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly centered on the downtown business district of Crawfordville","address_restricted":false,"city":"Crawfordville","county":"Taliaferro County","state":"GA","lat":33.56181459600003,"lon":-82.89457776282518,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-03-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Conservation","Entertainment/Recreation","Landscape Architecture","Politics/Government","Social History","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["national","state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district centered on the downtown business district of Crawfordville, the county seat of Taliaferro County, Georgia. It covers commercial, residential, industrial, community landmark and recreational resources, and the town plan dates to 1826.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Crawfordville as a well-preserved example of the Washington-type courthouse town plan, with a central square inside a grid of streets. It also holds a wide range of house types and styles from the mid-19th to mid-20th century. The district includes Liberty Hall, the home of Alexander H. Stephens, and A.H. Stephens Memorial State Park, and it reflects the town's growth after the Georgia Railroad arrived in 1843.","narrative":"Crawfordville, the seat of Taliaferro County in east central Georgia, is protected as a historic district made up of its downtown, neighborhoods, landmarks and recreational land. The town was laid out in 1826 on the Washington-type plan, with a courthouse square at the center of a street grid. A planning historian quoted in the nomination calls it the perfect example of that type. The Georgia Railroad reached the town in 1843, and most downtown buildings date from the 1910s to the 1950s, after several fires destroyed earlier blocks. Brick commercial rows front Broad Street, and a stretch of Commerce Street was historically home to African-American-owned businesses. Houses range from Queen Anne, Folk Victorian and Craftsman to Colonial Revival and Ranch, in types such as Georgian cottages, shotguns and bungalows. The district also takes in Liberty Hall, the home of Alexander H. Stephens, the Taliaferro County Courthouse and Stephens Memorial State Park. Its period of significance runs from 1826 to 1956.","period_of_significance":"1826-1956","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century Greek Revival and Gothic Revival, Late Victorian (High Victorian, Queen Anne), Folk Victorian, Colonial Revival, Neoclassical Revival, Commercial Style, Craftsman, Bungalow, English Vernacular Revival, Ranch, and various Georgia house types","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic functions such as dwellings, shops, banks, the courthouse, churches and schools are still listed as current functions. Of 349 resources, 217 contribute and 132 do not.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.274129-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/06000124.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000124/3f2b913936-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000124/3f2b913936-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"TampAGS, for AGS Media","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crawfordville,_Georgia_downtown.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">TampAGS, for AGS Media</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:Crawfordville,_Georgia_downtown.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"95000764","name":"Stephens, A. H., Memorial State Park","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/stephens-a-h-memorial-state-park-95000764/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209568","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113710854"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/taliaferro-county/crawfordville-historic-district-06000124/"}