LeVert Historic District

South of Talbotton's business center lies a compact neighborhood of about 25 acres with 22 buildings, most dating from the 19th century. Its anchor is Straus-LeVert Memorial Hall, a white frame Greek Revival building of about 1856 that housed LeVert College, one of the first state-chartered colleges for women in Georgia. The Straus family, who once lived in Talbotton, bought it in 1924 and turned it into a community building. Nearby are Zion Episcopal Church, a rare wooden English Gothic Revival church of 1848, and Talbotton Methodist Church, a brick Greek Revival building of 1857 built by master mason Miranda Fort and the oldest brick church in its conference. The remaining buildings are houses in Greek Revival, Victorian and neo-classical designs, dating from 1836 to the early 1900s. Several were homes of physicians, planters, merchants and other prominent county residents. Together they show the varied architecture of a prosperous small Southern town.