{"nrhp_refnum":"94001140","name":"McLemore Cove Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Richard Lane House","Miller Brothers Farm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"3 mi. S of Chickamauga, in an area roughly bounded by Lookout and Pigeon Mtns., and GA 136","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kensington","county":"Walker County","state":"GA","lat":34.700035801500064,"lon":-85.4079016538673,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-09-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Prehistoric","Transportation","Religion","Military","Landscape Architecture","Industry","Education","Commerce","Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural historic district of about 50,141 acres in McLemore Cove, a V-shaped valley between Lookout Mountain and Pigeon Mountain about three miles south of Chickamauga in Walker County, Georgia, with farmsteads, communities and landscape features from the 1840s to the 1940s.","why_significant":"The district is described as one of the most intact rural landscapes remaining in Georgia, with a wide range of late 19th and early 20th century farmhouses, barns, fields, churches, schools and cemeteries. It also reflects Civil War events before the Battle of Chickamauga, growth after the Chattanooga Southern Railroad arrived in 1887, and early 20th-century iron ore mining.","narrative":"McLemore Cove is a V-shaped valley in Walker County, Georgia, about three miles south of Chickamauga, enclosed by Lookout Mountain on the west and Pigeon Mountain on the east. The historic district covers roughly 50,000 acres of farmland, creeks, hardwood slopes and small communities such as Kensington, Cedar Grove, Pond Spring and Cooper Heights. Most buildings are farm-related: crib barns, smokehouses, corncribs, and wood-framed farmhouses on limestone foundations, ranging from dogtrots and I-houses to Folk Victorian and Queen Anne designs. The valley takes its name from a Cherokee/Scottish family who settled in the 1820s, opened to white settlement by the 1832 land lottery, and it figured in events before the Battle of Chickamauga. The Chattanooga Southern Railroad, completed in 1890, spurred new growth and iron ore mining. The area retains outstanding rural vistas and is described as one of the most intact rural landscapes in Georgia.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"George Cornish (local brick mason, J. C. Morgan House, 1884)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Gothic, Queen Anne; Other: I-House, Plantation Plain, Central Hallway Cottage, Gabled Ell Cottage, Bungalow, Queen Anne Cottage, Saddlebag, Double-Pen, New South Cottage, Folk Victorian, Hall-Parlor, Temple Front Cottage","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still largely rural and agricultural with active farms; the form says the area retains a high degree of integrity except for a few areas of recent development.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.611171-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/94001140.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001140/3b26be9caf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001140/3b26be9caf-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Thomson200","credit_html":"Thomson200, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McLemore_Cove,_looking_towards_Lookout_Mountain,_Oct_2016.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209825","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLemore_Cove_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29093347"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/walker-county/mclemore-cove-historic-district-94001140/"}