{"nrhp_refnum":"96001299","name":"McConnell Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"GA 51, approximately 2.5 mi. NW of jct. with I-85","address_restricted":false,"city":"Carnesville","county":"Franklin County","state":"GA","lat":34.36818808250007,"lon":-83.35424799680239,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural crossroads community of small farm complexes, a school and a store/meeting hall along the Old Federal Road near Carnesville, Franklin County, Georgia, with buildings dating from about 1870 into the 1940s.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant for its representative north Georgia farmhouses, outbuildings and community buildings, and for the small subsistence and tenant farms typical of the Old Federal Road. It also reflects the development of a crossroads community tied to the McConnell family. It meets Criteria A and C at the local level.","narrative":"Along the Old Federal Road near Carnesville, a cluster of farm complexes and community buildings forms a rural crossroads settlement tied to the McConnell family. Thomas McConnell moved to Franklin County from South Carolina in 1852, and his son David and grandson John later built the houses in the district. The district has 32 contributing and 10 noncontributing resources. These include farmhouses from the 1870s to 1906, log and frame barns, a corn crib, a smokehouse and other outbuildings. At the crossroads stand the 1905 two-room Plain View School, which operated until 1952 and is still a voting site, and a c. 1910 store and meeting hall built by the Masons and Oddfellows. The farms were mostly small subsistence operations growing corn, oats, wheat and vegetables, with cotton as a modest cash crop and tenant farming common. The district was listed for its architecture, agriculture and community development between about 1870 and 1946.","period_of_significance":"C. 1870-1946","architect_builder":"Unknown.","architectural_style":"Other: Double Pen, Plantation Plain, Georgian cottage plan","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The John F. McConnell House is described as in excellent condition; the Plain View School was restored by a local women's club and is available for public use. Current functions are single dwellings and agricultural outbuildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.367116-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/96001299.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001299/11a99b17d2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001299/11a99b17d2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McConnell_Historic_District_Outbuildings.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</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:McConnell_Historic_District_Outbuildings.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206092","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McConnell_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55622588"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/franklin-county/mcconnell-historic-district-96001299/"}