{"nrhp_refnum":"79000740","name":"Philomath Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"GA 22","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philomath","county":"Oglethorpe County","state":"GA","lat":33.72479424200006,"lon":-82.98674033638119,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-07-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Military","Education","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district covering about 311 acres in and around the town of Philomath, 12 miles south of Lexington on State Route 22 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. It contains a roughly one-mile strip of mainly nineteenth-century buildings, the Bartram Buffalo Lick and part of the Bartram Trail.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is important architecturally, historically and archaeologically. It has a fine group of Greek Revival and Plantation Plain buildings and a settlement pattern that appears to be the original one. The Buffalo Lick was a known Indian meeting place named as a boundary point in the 1773 Treaty of Augusta, and the town is tied to the Reid Academy and the last council of the Confederate cabinet in 1865.","narrative":"Philomath is a small Oglethorpe County, Georgia, community strung along State Route 22, and its historic district takes in about 311 acres. A one-mile stretch of mostly nineteenth-century homes, a small commercial area and a white frame Presbyterian church built around 1900 sit alongside pastures, forest, a section of the Bartram Trail and the Bartram Buffalo Lick. Three Greek Revival houses stand out, among them the Globe, considered the finest in the county, and the nearly identical Glenn-Callaway House. Older Plantation Plain houses and a log cabin dated about 1780 add to the mix. The lick, a clay area visited by naturalist William Bartram, served as an Indian meeting place and was named in the 1773 Treaty of Augusta. The town was also home to the Reid Academy, a boys' boarding school, and was where Confederate cabinet members held their last council of war in 1865. The settlement pattern appears largely original.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival and Plantation Plain","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings are occupied. Some are vacant, including a former store and a former post office, and the Presbyterian church had not been used for about seven years. A few trailers and a recent store are noted as intrusions.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.444616-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/79000740.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000740/b15d4afc7b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000740/b15d4afc7b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Gwringle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bryan-Wolfe_House,_c._1925.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Gwringle</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:Bryan-Wolfe_House,_c._1925.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209224","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49542146"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/oglethorpe-county/philomath-historic-district-79000740/"}