Roberta Historic District

Roberta's historic core in Crawford County, Georgia, covers about 65 acres of homes, stores, a school and a church that grew up around the Atlanta and Florida Railroad after it was completed in 1888. Development followed a cross-axial plan, with Wright Avenue facing the tracks and Agency Street, once the road to the Creek Indian Agency, running east-west. The downtown has attached one- and two-story brick stores with corbeled cornices and wooden storefronts, including a general store whose original counters, shelves and scales survive. Surrounding houses are mostly one- and one-and-a-half-story frame buildings in Victorian eclectic, Colonial Revival and Craftsman styles. A 1928 Colonial Revival middle school, a 1926 brick Methodist church and a 1931 granite monument to Col. Benjamin Hawkins add to the setting. The district was listed for its architecture, its commercial history, and its development as a typical Georgia railroad town between 1888 and 1936.