South Metter Residential Historic District

South Metter is a 67-acre neighborhood of single-family houses just south of the commercial center of Metter, Georgia. It was platted in 1899 under James Terrell Trapnell, who founded the town after the railroad crossed his land. Its gridiron streets include divided north-south avenues with landscaped medians, a feature few planned south Georgia towns shared. Houses were built in three waves: Victorian Eclectic dwellings from the 1890s to 1910s, Craftsman and Bungalow homes from the 1910s into the 1930s, and brick English Tudor cottages from the 1920s to 1940. In the 1920s the Metter Women's Club and the city street committee planted trees, grassed the medians and laid curbs and sidewalks following Trapnell's plan. Construction nearly stopped in 1941, and later brick ranch houses are the main noncontributing buildings. The district was recognized for its architecture, community planning and landscape architecture, and as the largest intact part of the original town plan.