Harrisburg-West End Historic District

Harrisburg-West End is a large neighborhood in Augusta, Georgia, west of downtown and south of the Augusta Canal. It contains about 1,187 contributing buildings and sites, mostly modest one-story wooden houses built between the 1880s and 1930s. The area began as the village of Harrisburg around the c. 1797 Ezekiel Harris House, then grew as a suburb called West End. It expanded further when the Sibley and King textile mills opened along the canal in the 1880s and built housing for workers, including shotgun houses, duplexes and brick apartment buildings. Folk Victorian trim, Craftsman details and Queen Anne houses appear, along with the locally documented "Augusta door." Corner stores, churches and three early schools served residents. The Calhoun Expressway, built around 1970, divided the district into two parts and removed much of the former Rollersville community. The area was listed for its intact historic character, its architecture, its planned development and its link to mill-town industry and social history.