{"nrhp_refnum":"76000653","name":"Long Cane Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"N of West Point on U.S. 29","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Point","county":"Troup County","state":"GA","lat":32.96015935600008,"lon":-85.13441525237798,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-05-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 155-acre rural historic district around the Long Cane community north of West Point, Troup County, Georgia, extending along U.S. Highway 29 and Cannonville Road. It contains houses, two churches and sites of lost community buildings, dating from about 1829 to 1850.","why_significant":"The district preserves the hub of a mid-nineteenth century farming community settled after the 1827 land lottery. Its buildings reflect rural Georgia building styles of the period. The community was also the boyhood home of Benjamin Harvey Hill and Fuller E. Callaway. Little new building since the Civil War has left it with the atmosphere of a mid-nineteenth century rural community.","narrative":"Long Cane is a rural farming community north of West Point in Troup County, Georgia. Settlers arrived after the 1827 land lottery and named the place for the large cane breaks along Long Cane Creek. The historic district covers 155 acres along U.S. Highway 29 and Cannonville Road. It includes the Baptist Church of 1829, the Methodist Church of 1841 built on land given by the Hill family, the Greene-Ridgeway House of about 1850, and the John Hill House of about 1840 with its outbuildings and family cemetery. The sites of the Masonic Lodge, which also served as a post office and stage stop, and of the Long Cane School are also within the boundary. Benjamin Harvey Hill and industrialist Fuller E. Callaway grew up here. The community declined after the Civil War through loss of manpower and exhausted soil. Little building since then has left it looking like a mid-nineteenth century rural settlement.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The John Hill House is described as vacant and in good condition. The Masonic Lodge (demolished 1969) and Long Cane School (burned 1964) no longer stand. The form checks both occupied and unoccupied status and gives overall condition as good to fair.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.687805-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/76000653.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000653/a46c374667-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000653/a46c374667-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley; SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Long_Cane_Historic_District.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers Langley; SaveRivers</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:Long_Cane_Historic_District.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209739","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141810771"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/troup-county/long-cane-historic-district-76000653/"}