{"nrhp_refnum":"72000381","name":"Jonesboro Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Stately Oaks"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"GA 54 and 3","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jonesboro","county":"Clayton County","state":"GA","lat":33.52391237100005,"lon":-84.35397456800712,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Military","Transportation","Literature","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 300-acre historic district in Jonesboro, Clayton County, Georgia, covering the town's old commercial core and residential streets, laid out in 1843-1845 along the railroad, with buildings mostly from before 1900.","why_significant":"Jonesboro was an antebellum commercial and shipping center on the Macon & Western Railroad and the site of the Battle of Jonesboro (Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, 1864), which led directly to the fall of Atlanta. The district also keeps a collection of simple Greek Revival cottages and houses, many of them probably the work of a single builder, along with post-war Victorian brick commercial buildings.","narrative":"Jonesboro's historic district preserves the core of a Georgia railroad town about 20 miles south of Atlanta. Colonel Samuel Goode Jones laid out the streets in 1843-1845 after the Monroe Railroad arrived, with the tracks running through the center of town. The district includes the brick business blocks of Main and McDonough Streets, most built before 1900, and residential streets with Greek Revival cottages and two-story houses. In August 1864 Union cavalry burned much of the town, and the Battle of Jonesboro, fought on August 31 and September 1, led directly to the fall of Atlanta. Rebuilding began in the late 1860s, producing Victorian brick buildings such as the 1869 Court House and Jail, the 1867 stone train station, and the 1898 clock-tower courthouse. Several antebellum houses served as hospitals during the battle. The district also contains a Confederate cemetery holding several hundred soldiers and the original town cemetery.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (box checked; 20th Century also marked)","architect_builder":"Mansfield & Chapman (1869 Court House and Jail); Whitmall P. Allen and the Allen family credited by local tradition with Greek Revival houses, 1839-1850","architectural_style":"Greek Revival and Victorian, including Victorian Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked fair and altered. Several buildings have been renovated or modernized but not properly restored. Restoration of the 1867 train station and 1869 jail was planned or under way.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.865064-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/72000381.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207538","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonesboro_Historic_District_(Jonesboro,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6275382"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/clayton-county/jonesboro-historic-district-72000381/"}