North Tallapoosa Residential Historic District

Roughly Centered on int. Bowden St. and Manning ST., Tallapoosa, Georgia. County/parish: Haralson.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 09, 2003. NRIS 03000405.

157 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site.

From Wikipedia:

North Tallapoosa Residential Historic District

The North Tallapoosa Residential Historic District, in Tallapoosa, Georgia, is a 126 acres (51 ha) historic district roughly centered on int. Bowden St. and Manning St. The listing included 157 contributing buildings and a contributing site. It also included 71 non-contributing buildings and a non-contributing site.

Included in the district are:

• Tallapoosa Presbyterian Church (c.1891) a Gothic Revival-style church with a corner entrance tower, moved in 1905
• Methodist Episcopal Church (later Pentecostal Holiness Church) (c. 1895–1903), similar, moved in 1915
• Methodist Episcopal Church South (later United Methodist Church) (c. 1918–19), brick Classical Revival
• First Baptist Church (1952), brick Colonial Revival-style
• Tallapoosa High School (1936), later the Tallapoosa Elementary School.

Engineer Charles D. Camp was responsible for the town's 1882 plan.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208617