Roughly bounded by Chattahoochee River, GA 37, GA 39, College, Commerce and Jefferson Sts., Fort Gaines, Georgia. County/parish: Clay.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 17, 1984. NRIS 84000970.
327 contributing buildings.Also known as:
The Fort Gaines Historic District in Fort Gaines, Georgia, is a 300 acres (1.2 km2) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
It is roughly bounded by the Chattahoochee River, GA 37, GA 39, College, Commerce and Jefferson Streets. It includes Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Neo-Classical Revival architecture., It includes the Clay County Courthouse.
It included 327 contributing buildings.
The NRHP nomination stated:
(read more...)Fort Gaines is a good intact example of a frontier Georgia town planned and developed in the nineteenth century for a combination of military, political, and commercial purposes. It is historically significant in the areas of exploration and settlement, military history, community planning and development, architecture, landscape architecture, commerce, industry, transportation, politics and government, and historic archaeology.
National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207530