{"nrhp_refnum":"96001304","name":"Bellamy Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"GA 51, approximately 2.75 mi. NW of jct. with I-85","address_restricted":false,"city":"Carnesville","county":"Franklin County","state":"GA","lat":34.36922241450006,"lon":-83.36286642692055,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture","Community Planning and Development","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural farming community of 14 contributing buildings along the Old Federal Road (Georgia State Route 51) near Carnesville, Franklin County, Georgia, with structures dating from about 1800 into the 1940s.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant for architecture, agriculture, community planning and development, and exploration/settlement. It preserves an early settler's log house predating the Old Federal Road, along with farmhouses and outbuildings typical of north Georgia. It also shows a linear rural community that grew on cotton farming until the boll weevil and the Depression.","narrative":"Along the Old Federal Road near Carnesville, Georgia, a string of farm complexes forms a rural community whose oldest building dates to about 1800. The Richard Bellamy log house, a two-room structure with half-dovetail canted logs, was built before the road itself and is the oldest house in this stretch. Later buildings include the 1886 John T. Stevenson House, the 1890 E.E. Coffee House with Queen Anne influence, and the 1907 Martin-Adams House, along with log and framed barns, a log corn crib and a potato house. Richard Bellamy settled here on a Revolutionary War land grant, and the community grew through the 19th century to include a store, a mill and a cotton gin. Cotton became the main crop, and farms were larger than typical for the area. Prosperity peaked early in the 20th century before the boll weevil and the Depression ended it. The district has 14 contributing and 10 noncontributing buildings.","period_of_significance":"C. 1800-1946","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne; Plantation Plain; Georgian Cottage; Double-Pen","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is single dwellings; the form describes some buildings as in excellent condition and others, such as the Richard Bellamy log house and E.E. Coffee house, as deteriorated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.332971-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/96001304.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206052","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55605164"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/franklin-county/bellamy-historic-district-96001304/"}