South Main Street Historic District

South Main Street in Watkinsville, Georgia, anchors a half-mile residential district of thirty-eight buildings, including a church, set on shaded, landscaped grounds. Houses range from a c. 1820 log cabin with later Greek Revival additions to Plantation Plain dwellings, Victorian Gothic cottages, Queen Anne houses and Craftsman bungalows. The 1893 Methodist Church and the Queen Anne A.W. Ashford House, built by carpenter Nathaniel Richardson the same year, form the focal point at the northern end. The neighborhood developed in the late nineteenth century, when the street was renamed from Broad Street Extension to South Main, and the railroad depot at its end encouraged residential growth. Local townspeople, mainly those involved in the town's financial, cultural and political life, lived here in modest, typical homes. Local people did the landscaping, and the street scenes have changed little since the 1920s. The district was recognized for its architecture, landscape architecture and community development.