Buckhead Historic District

Buckhead is a small rural town in the Georgia Piedmont, and its historic core is a district of about 94 acres built around the railroad that reached it in 1837. The district holds simple frame houses in Folk Victorian and Craftsman styles, a row of three attached brick commercial buildings from 1890 to 1906, a detached brick store from 1904, a 1910 brick jail that now serves as town hall, and two churches. A 1939 brick gymnasium recalls the town's school. Along Saffold and Perryman roads lies a historically African-American neighborhood with saddlebag, hall-parlor and gabled-ell houses, a Masonic lodge and a c. 1950 school. The district was listed for architecture, community planning and development, transportation, and Black ethnic heritage. It is presented as a good example of a railroad strip-type town whose cotton-based economy grew with the Central of Georgia line. Its period of significance runs from 1890 to 1951.