{"nrhp_refnum":"74000685","name":"Camilla-Zack Community Center District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Rte. 1","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mayfield","county":"Hancock County","state":"GA","lat":33.41332803600005,"lon":-82.93556977268477,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-12-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Black","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural district of about 165 acres along a dirt road leading to Powelton, near Mayfield in Hancock County, Georgia. It grew into a community center for rural Black farmers, with the central log-and-granite Center built in 1932.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district was a remarkable, perhaps unique, community built solely by Black people for their own betterment during the Depression. It began with three freedmen brothers, the Huberts, who were the first Black buyers of land in Middle Georgia after the Civil War. The district was cited as an example to Southern rural Black communities of what hard work and cooperation could achieve.","narrative":"Camilla-Zack Community Center District covers about 165 acres along a dirt road leading to Powelton, near Mayfield in Hancock County, Georgia. It was once a regional center for rural Black farm families. The focal point, the Camilla-Zack Country Life Center, was built in 1932 from 550 pine logs and 150 tons of native granite, with a large granite fireplace in its central community room. Around it stood a cooperative store, a cafeteria, teachers' cottages, a health building, a swimming pool and a church dating to about 1879. The community traces back to three freedmen brothers, Zack, David and Floyd Hubert, who bought 165 acres after the Civil War. Their descendants built the Center, directed by Benjamin F. Hubert. It offered farm instruction, gardening and dairy projects, and summer training for rural Black teachers. The district prospered through the Depression, 1940s and 1950s, but later fell into disuse, and several buildings have decayed or disappeared.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Center built by the Hubert sons, directed by Benjamin F. Hubert; church built c.1879 by the Hubert brothers","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition rated fair. Described as a center for community activities that is infrequently used. Many buildings have decayed, and the health center and school 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 02:55:40.49454-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/74000685.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208594","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141768876"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/hancock-county/camilla-zack-community-center-district-74000685/"}