{"nrhp_refnum":"11000180","name":"Williams, Georgia, Nursing Home","other_names":["Borders, Beatrice, House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"176 Dyer St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Camilla","county":"Mitchell County","state":"GA","lat":31.236630261000073,"lon":-84.20786532199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-04-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Health/Medicine","Other","Social History","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Craftsman-style bungalow at 176 Dyer Street in Camilla, Mitchell County, Georgia, built around 1935 as a private home and later adapted as a birthing center and maternity home.","why_significant":"It is described as a rare, possibly the only surviving, black-owned birthing center in Georgia from the Jim Crow era, and the only known one serving African-American women in southwest Georgia. It is tied to midwife and entrepreneur Beatrice Borders, who delivered over 6,000 babies there. It is also significant for black ethnic heritage, health/medicine, social history, commerce and women's history.","narrative":"Built around 1935 in the historically Black neighborhood of Camilla known as \"the Hill,\" this front-gabled Craftsman bungalow looks much like its neighbors from the street. Inside, the rear was altered around 1941 to hold a delivery room, recovery rooms, a nursery and a separate side lobby, while the front rooms stayed a private home. Midwife Beatrice Borders ran a state-licensed birthing center here and named it for her mother, Georgia Williams, who taught her the trade. Between about 1941 and 1971 she and her assistants delivered more than 6,000 babies, mostly for African-American women who had few other options during segregation. Fees were modest, and she accepted farm goods as payment. The property is considered important for its role in Black heritage, health care, social history, commerce and women's history. It later served as a daycare until 2004, and the working layout of the birthing center largely survives.","period_of_significance":"C. 1941-1971","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements: Bungalow (Craftsman)","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Used as a childcare center from 1972 to 2004, then mainly for storage; the interior layout from the nursing home era remains largely intact, and exhibits are being considered.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.785059-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/11000180.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209005","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Williams_Nursing_Home","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29094880"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/mitchell-county/williams-georgia-nursing-home-11000180/"}