Union Point Historic District

Union Point's historic district takes in nearly the whole town in northeast Greene County, Georgia. Railroad tracks divide it: homes, churches and a school lie on higher ground to the north, while brick commercial buildings and textile mill buildings sit to the south. The district also includes a mill village of modest wood-framed houses, a Black neighborhood known as Canaan, a religious campground with a 1932 tabernacle, and two historic cemeteries. Buildings date from the 1840s to the early 1940s and show Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Neoclassical Revival and Craftsman styles. The town grew where two rrail lines met, with an 1870s railroad inn serving travelers and a hosiery mill founded in the late 1890s. The district was listed because it preserves a complete picture of a small, railroad-oriented Georgia town, with commercial, residential, industrial, religious and educational resources. Its architecture and its role in regional commerce and transportation support its statewide significance.