Camilla-Zack Community Center District

Camilla-Zack Community Center District covers about 165 acres along a dirt road leading to Powelton, near Mayfield in Hancock County, Georgia. It was once a regional center for rural Black farm families. The focal point, the Camilla-Zack Country Life Center, was built in 1932 from 550 pine logs and 150 tons of native granite, with a large granite fireplace in its central community room. Around it stood a cooperative store, a cafeteria, teachers' cottages, a health building, a swimming pool and a church dating to about 1879. The community traces back to three freedmen brothers, Zack, David and Floyd Hubert, who bought 165 acres after the Civil War. Their descendants built the Center, directed by Benjamin F. Hubert. It offered farm instruction, gardening and dairy projects, and summer training for rural Black teachers. The district prospered through the Depression, 1940s and 1950s, but later fell into disuse, and several buildings have decayed or disappeared.