Braselton Historic District

Braselton, in Jackson County, Georgia, grew around a crossroads where State Routes 53 and 124 meet, and this district preserves much of that early town. Founded and shaped by the Braselton family, it contains 52 contributing resources, including wood-frame and brick homes, attached one-story brick stores, a 1925 gas station, a rolling mill, a cotton gin, cotton compresses and warehouses. Three large Braselton family houses, built in 1910 and 1913, show Colonial Revival and Neoclassical Revival styles. Smaller central hallway, saddlebag and Craftsman dwellings sit in landscaped yards with mature trees. A 1926 gymnasium, a family cemetery founded in 1929 and terraced fields still planted behind the John Braselton House complete the setting. The district was recognized for architecture, landscape architecture, commerce and industry, reflecting a town built on agricultural production between about 1887 and 1951.