{"nrhp_refnum":"09000751","name":"Pleasant Valley Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by CSX RR., city limits, & land lot lines.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Crandall","county":"Murray County","state":"GA","lat":34.85188111350007,"lon":-84.73992723812604,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-09-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Exploration/Settlement","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural agricultural historic district in a valley of the north Georgia mountains, about one and a half miles south of Crandall in Murray County, made up of historic farmhouses, farm outbuildings, agricultural fields, two roadway structures and a rail overpass.","why_significant":"The valley is one of very few north Georgia mountain valleys that still keep their historic agricultural landscape and character. The district preserves farmsteads and fields tied to the area's farming development from the 1830s onward, along with a 1908 railroad overpass and a rare 1922 steel encased stringer bridge. The full statement of significance and the criteria are cut off in the supplied text.","narrative":"Pleasant Valley is a rural farming district in a valley of the north Georgia mountains, roughly a mile and a half south of Crandall in Murray County. Open fields lined with trees, widely spaced farmhouses and barns, and quiet narrow roads give it a look that has largely survived while nearby areas have been developed. Its historic buildings include a log house built about 1836 by Julius Bates and enlarged around 1870, a Folk Victorian Central Hallway house from about 1882, an I-House from about 1910 to 1919, and a brick Ranch house from 1951. Smokehouses, barns, tenant houses and a former cattle auction structure add to the farm landscape. Two transportation structures stand near the western edge: a 1908 concrete railroad overpass and a 1922 steel encased stringer bridge, the oldest surviving example of its type in Georgia. Modern poultry houses and newer homes exist alongside the historic farms, reflecting continued agricultural production.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Julius Bates (c. 1836 log house); James Colquitt Loughridge (1951 Ranch house)","architectural_style":"Folk Victorian, Central Hallway, I-House, Ranch House","criteria":[],"status_note":"Farmland remains in agricultural use, including cattle pasture and modern poultry operations, and the farmhouses are still used as dwellings. Some historic outbuildings remain.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.853657-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/09000751.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000751/3c6b0c29e8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000751/3c6b0c29e8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PLEASANT_VALLEY_H.D._MURRAY_COUNTY_GA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PLEASANT_VALLEY_H.D._MURRAY_COUNTY_GA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209057","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141782036"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/murray-county/pleasant-valley-historic-district-09000751/"}