South Railroad Historic District

Seven modest houses and a masonry service station line both sides of the railroad tracks south of Baconton's commercial center, forming a narrow district of about 22 acres. Most buildings are frame, no taller than one and one-half stories, and designed in late Victorian or Craftsman/Bungalow styles by local craftsmen. The land was once owned by Major Robert J. Bacon, who sold roughly 200 acres to John R. Pinson, Sr.; the Pinsons built here in 1902, and members of the Glausier family built several houses soon after. The railroad, laid in 1869-70, gave rise to the town, and the Dixie Highway, paved in 1927-28 as the first paved road in Mitchell County outside city streets, prompted the service station's construction in 1927. Lawns, trees and a pecan grove give the area its landscape character. It remains one of only two historic residential neighborhoods in Baconton.