{"nrhp_refnum":"82002458","name":"Strickland, R. F., Company","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Railroad and McLendon Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Concord","county":"Pike County","state":"GA","lat":33.091391473000044,"lon":-84.43944791099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-08-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture","Communications","Social History","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century commercial buildings near the center of downtown Concord, Pike County, Georgia, anchored by the 1907 two-story brick R.F. Strickland Company store.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the company was the headquarters of the Strickland family agri-business and a clear example of the tenant-farming system in Georgia. It also shaped the growth of Concord, and its buildings are a largely intact collection of small-town commercial architecture. The store was also a local center of transportation and communication.","narrative":"Strickland's store and its surrounding buildings form the commercial core of downtown Concord, Georgia. The principal building is a two-story brick store completed in 1907 by the Gresham Manufacturing Company of Griffin. It retains original display cabinets, bank and office vaults, tongue-and-groove ceilings and a slate-lettered parapet sign. Nearby are cotton warehouses, a mule barn, a gin building, an earlier company store and a railroad freight building. The complex mattered because the Strickland family built a business here that managed more than three hundred tenant farms, sold groceries, hardware, fertilizer and farm goods, and helped finance a local bank. The family's land sales shaped the town, which grew up around the store and was incorporated in 1881. Trains stopped in front of the building, a ticker tape machine linked it to the New York Stock Exchange, and the telephone exchange occupied its second floor. The buildings show changing construction methods, from load-bearing brick to poured concrete and corrugated metal.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900- (specific date 1907)","architect_builder":"Builder/contractor: Gresham Manufacturing Co., Griffin, GA","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Marked occupied and in good condition; the store is described as still the major commercial operation in Concord, though its range of goods has narrowed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.146618-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/82002458.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002458/e533965bb8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002458/e533965bb8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Timkemp","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:R._F._Strickland_Company.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Timkemp</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:R._F._Strickland_Company.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209267","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._F._Strickland_Company","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16899069"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/pike-county/strickland-r-f-company-82002458/"}