Hamilton Historic District

Three farmhouses and ten outbuildings make up this small settlement beside Georgia State Route 51 near Carnesville, in Franklin County. The group sits among rolling hills, farmland and hardwood forest along the Old Federal Road. Two of the houses, a Plantation Plain dwelling that began as a small log house and a Central Hallway house with a rear ell, date from about 1860. The third is a Craftsman bungalow from the late 1920s, built by Alice Hamilton, who also had log outbuildings made from timber on her land. Together they show how a single family, the Hamiltons, farmed and held the Walnut Hill post office over several generations. Asa Brawner, a doctor, minister and state representative, built the earliest house before selling to Cyrus Hamilton in 1870. The district was listed for its representation of small subsistence farms in north Georgia and for its modest, locally built architecture, including later outbuildings that continue older building traditions.