Bostwick Historic District

Bostwick is a small farming town in north Morgan County, Georgia, surrounded by agricultural land. Its historic district holds houses with outbuildings, brick stores, three churches, two cemeteries, two cotton fields and a group of cotton-processing buildings, built between about 1859 and the mid-1950s. John Bostwick, Sr. began a supply business in 1892, opened the Bostwick Manufacturing Company in 1901 with a cottonseed oil mill and gin, and built the Susie Agnes Hotel in 1902. He later subdivided land for residential neighborhoods in 1908 and 1912, producing a surviving grid plan and an unusual T-shaped arrangement of main streets. The town was founded as a processing center for local crops, with the railroad arriving about a decade afterward. Architecture ranges from his Neoclassical Revival Georgian house to Queen Anne and Georgian cottages, Craftsman houses and a 1950s International-style school. The district was listed for its ties to the cotton industry, to Bostwick himself, and to its intact buildings and plan.