__NOTOC__ This is a list of African American Historic Places in Georgia. This was originally based on a book by the National Park Service, The Preservation Press, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers,African American Historic Places, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places which may primarily have addressed sites that were listed, or were eligible for listing, on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Historic sites might meet local or state criteria for listing in a historic register with or without meeting NRHP listing criteria.
A volunteer organization, the Georgia African American Historic Preservation Network (GAAHPN), has been active in preserving African American historic resources since 1989.
The state of Georgia's Historic Preservation Division has staff dedicated in this area since 2000. The program assists in preservation and, with GAAHPN, publishes Reflections, a periodical featuring African American historic sites and stories. HPD's program was the first established within any state historic preservation office.
+ Contents: Counties in Georgia with African American Historic Places - Jefferson - Liberty - Lowndes - Meriwether - Muscogee - Paulding - Randolph - Richmond - Thomas - Washington
Some of these sites are on the National Register of Historic Places (NR) as independent sites or as part of larger historic district. Several of the sites are National Historic Landmarks (NRL). Others have Georgia historical markers (HM). The citation on historical markers is given in the reference. The location listed is the nearest community to the site. More precise locations are given in the reference.
Baldwin County Milledge Westover
Bartow County Cassville Noble Hill School, a Rosenwald School
Bibb County
Macon Douglass Theatre, in NRHP-listed Macon Historic District, founded in 1921 by Charles H. Douglass, an African American entrepreneur, to address absence of theatres accessible to African Americans Jim Crow era. Fort Hill Historic District Pleasant Hill Historic District Bowden Golf Course
Burke County Keysville Hopeful Baptist Church
Camden County St. Marys High Point-Half Moon Bluff Historic District
Chatham County
Burroughs St. Bartholomew's Church Nicholsonville Nicholsonville Baptist Church Savannah Beach Institute Laurel Grove-South Cemetery
Clarke County
Athens Chestnut Grove School Morton Building Reese Street Historic District
Cobb County Marietta Zion Baptist Church
Dougherty County Albany Bridge House
Effingham County Guyton New Hope AME Church
Elbert County Elberton Dove Creek Baptist Church
Floyd County Cave Spring Chubb Methodist Episcopal Church
Fulton County
Atlanta Atlanta University Center District Butler Street Colored Methodist Episcopal Church First Congregational Church Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park Odd Fellows Building and Auditorium Stone Hall, Atlanta University Sweet Auburn Historic District Booker T. Washington High School Younge Street School
Glynn County St. Simons Island Hamilton Plantation Slave Cabins
Greene County Greensboro Dr. Calvin M. Baber House South Street-Broad Street-Main Street-Laurel Street Historic District Springfield Baptist Church
Habersham County Clakesville Daes Chapel Methodist Church
Hancock County Mayfield Camilla-Zack Community Center District
Hart County Hartwell H.E. Fortson House Jackson Morrison House John Underwood House
Jefferson County Louisville Old Market
Liberty County
Midway Dorchester Academy Boys' Dormitory
Lowndes County Valdosta Dasher High School
Meriwether County Greenville Greenville Historic District Woodbury Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge
Morgan County Madison Madison Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Muscogee County Columbus Building at 1612 3rd Avenue Claflin School Colored Cemetery First African Baptist Church Girard Colored Misson Liberty Theater Isaac Maund House William Price House Gertrude Pridgett "Ma" Rainey House William Henry Spencer House St. Christopher's Normal and Industrial Parish School John Stewart House St. John Chapel
Paulding County Hiram Colored School, a Rosenwald School that was NRHP-listed in 2001.
Randolph County Cuthbert Fletcher Henderson House
Richmond County Augusta Laney-Walker North Historic District Springfield Baptist Church (Boundary Increase)
Thomas County
Thomasville Bethany Congregational Church Church of the Good Shepherd
Washington County Sanderville Thomas Jefferson Elder High and Industrial School, the first Rosenwald School in Georgia to be listed on the National Register (in 1981)
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