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