Fort Valley Downtown and Railroad Historic District

Fort Valley's downtown and railroad district forms the center of a Georgia railroad town that is also the Peach County seat. The district includes 60 contributing resources, mostly built between the late 1860s and the 1950s. The tracks, completed in 1851, anchor the east side, where a freight depot (c.1871), a passenger depot (c.1906) and an interlocking tower (c.1906) stand beside industrial buildings such as the Anthoine Machine Works and a former peach cull building. To the west, one- to three-story brick commercial buildings line Main and Church Streets in a continuous wall of storefronts. Government landmarks include the 1936 Colonial Revival Peach County Courthouse by Dennis & Dennis, a 1930s former post office, a former jail and a c.1950 city hall. Three nineteenth-century houses with railroad ties stand east of the tracks. Together these resources show how the railroad and the peach trade shaped the town's layout and commerce from the late 1800s through the 1940s.