Young Harris College Historic District

At the heart of the Young Harris College campus in Towns County, Georgia, a five-acre district preserves the college's two oldest surviving buildings and a section of historic grounds along Appleby Drive. Susan B. Harris Chapel, built in 1892, has brick corbeling, a denticulated cornice, an arcaded entrance and a two-story bell tower. Sharp Hall, completed in 1912, is a more utilitarian two-story brick building. Rock walkways, a 1945 well house, stone entrance gates and a row of cedars complete the setting. The Methodist Church South founded the school in 1886 for mountain youth, and it was named for benefactor Judge Young L.G. Harris in 1888. It became a junior college by 1912. In 1890 the trustees planned the street layout for both college and town, placing the chapel at its center. The district is recognized for education, religion, community planning, architecture and landscape architecture.