Located near the Blue Ridge Mountains, Athens, Georgia is a hip college town notable for Antebellum architecture, nightlife, a Victorian-era downtown and as the home of the University of Georgia. - AsNotedIn
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| Albin P Dearing House |
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338 | S Milledge Ave | ||
| Albon Chase House |
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185 | N Hull St | Btw W Broad St and W Calyton | |
| Athens Factory |
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Williams St | E of Stone Mill Run, near Baldwin St | ||
| Athens Manufacturing Company |
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585 | While Circle | ||
| Athens Warehouse Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by Hancock and Thomas Sts, and the RR tracks | |||
| Athens-Clarke County City Hall |
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301 | College Ave |
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| Bishop House |
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Jackson St | |||
| Bloomfield Street Historic District |
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Bloomfield St | Roughly bounded by Bloomfield St, Peabody St, U of Georgia campus, W Rutherford St and S Milledge Ave | ||
| Boulevard Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by the Seaboard Coastline RR tracks, Pulaski St, Prince Ave, and Hiawassee St | |||
| Brightwell Shotgun Row |
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366- 376 | Barber St | ||
| Buena Vista Heights Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by Park Ave, Prince Ave, Pound St and Nantahala Extension | |||
| Calvin W Parr House |
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277 | Bloomfield St | ||
| Camak House |
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279 | Meigs St | ||
| Carnegie Library Building |
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1401 | Prince Ave | University of Georgia Health Sciences Campus | |
| Chestnut Grove School |
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610 | Epps Bridge Pkwy | Chestnut Grove Church | |
| Church-Waddel-Brumby House |
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280 | E Dougherty St | ||
| Cobb-Treanor House |
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1234 | S Lumpkin St | ||
| Cobbham Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by Prince Ave, Hill, Reese, and Pope Sts | |||
| Coca-Cola Bottling Plant-Athens |
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297 | Prince Ave | ||
| Dearing Street Historic District |
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Dearing St | Roughly bounded by W Broad St, Baxter St, S Milledge Ave and includes both sides of S Finley St and Henderson Ave | ||
| Downtown Athens Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by Hancock Ave, Foundry, Mitchell | |||
| Downtown Athens Historic District (Additional Documentation, Boundary Increase II and Boundary Decrease) |
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Roughly bounded by Dougherty St, Thomas St, Hickory St, Broad St South St and Pulaski St | |||
| Dr James S Hamilton House |
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150 | S Milledge Ave | ||
| First African Methodist Episcopal Church |
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521 | N Hull St | W Dougherty St | |
| Founder's Memorial Garden and House |
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S Lumpkin St | |||
| Franklin House |
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464 - 480 | E Broad St | ||
| Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery |
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530 | 4th St | ||
| Gov Wilson Lumpkin House |
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Cedar St | |||
| Henry W Grady House |
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634 | Prince Ave | ||
| Hubert Bond Owens House |
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215 | W Rutherford St | ||
| Jackson Street Cemetery |
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S Jackson St | |||
| James A Sledge House |
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749 | Cobb St | ||
| Joseph Henry Lumpkin House |
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248 | Prince Ave | ||
| Lucy Cobb Institute Campus |
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200 | N Milledge Ave | ||
| Milledge Avenue Historic District |
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S Milledge Ave | From Broad St to Five Points | ||
| Milledge Avenue Historic District (Boundary Increase) |
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295 | W Rutherford St | ||
| Milledge Circle Historic District |
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Milledge Park, Lumpkin St, Milledge Circle and Milledge Ave | |||
| Morton Building |
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199 | W Washington St | ||
| Newton House |
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892 | Prince Ave | ||
| North Lumpkin Commercial Buildings |
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Lumpkin St | Roughly bounded by Hancock Ave, Foundry, Mitchell St, Broad St and Lumpkin St | ||
| Oglethorpe Avenue Historic District |
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Oglethorpe Ave | University of Georgia Health Sciences Campus | ||
| Old Clarke County Jail |
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380 | Meigs St | ||
| Old North Campus, University of Georgia |
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E Broad St | Bounded by E Broad, S Lumpkin St and Jackson St | ||
| Parrott Insurance Building |
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283 | E Broad St | ||
| President's House |
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570 | Prince Ave | ||
| R P Sorrells House |
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220 | Prince Ave | ||
| Reese Street Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by Meigs, Finley, Broad, and Harris Sts | |||
| Rocksprings Shotgun Row Historic District |
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433 - 447 | Rocksprings St | ||
| Ross Crane House |
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247 | Pulaski St | ||
| State Botanical Gardens of Georgia |
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2450 | S Milledge Ave | Down Ferguston Rd | |
| T R R Cobb House |
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175 | Hill St | Pope St | |
| Thomas-Carithers House |
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530 | S Milledge Ave | ||
| Upson House |
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1022 | Prince Ave | ||
| Ware-Lyndon House |
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293 | Hoyt St | ||
| Weaver D's Delicious Fine Food |
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1016 | E Broad St | Willow St, near North Oconee River | |
| West Cloverhurst Avenue Historic District |
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W Cloverhurst Ave | From Springdale St to S Milledge Ave | ||
| West Hancock Avenue Historic District |
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Roughly bounded by Hill, Franklin, Broad Sts and the Plaza | |||
| White Hall |
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Phoenix Rd | S of Whitehall Rd, at end of S Milledge Ave | ||
| Wilkins House |
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387 | S Milledge Ave | ||
| Winterville Historic District |
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Main St | Roughly center on Main St and on the abandoned Georgia RR line within the city limits of Winterville | ||
| Woodlawn Historic District |
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Woodlawn Ave | |||
| Wuxtry Records |
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197 | E Clayton St | College Ave | |
| Young Women's Christian Association Complex |
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345 - 347 | W Hancock Ave |
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| 1806/00/00 | City of Athens is incorporated. | |||||
| 1980/04/05 | R.E.M. | Established | R.E.M. plays its first gig, a friend's birthday party in a converted Episcopal church in Athens, GA. |
| Particulars for Athens, GA: | |
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| Narrative Arts | Collegiate Life |
| Locale Type | US Consolidated City and County |
| Vicinage | Type | AsNotedIn |
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| Boulevard | Neighborhood | |
| Cobbham | Neighborhood | |
| Downtown | Neighborhood | |
| Five Points | Neighborhood | |
| Milledge Avenue District | Neighborhood | |
| Normaltown | Neighborhood | |
| North Athens | Neighborhood | |
| University of Georgia | University | |
| Westside | Neighborhood | |
| Whitehall | Neighborhood | |
| Winterville | Town |
Athens-Clarke County has a long and rich history which is interwoven with that of the state of Georgia and the nation. In 1801, the site was purchased for location for the University of Georgia, the first university chartered by a state government (1785) in the United States. Clarke County, named after the Revolutionary War hero Elijah Clarke, was carved out of the existing Jackson County in 1801; in 1806 Athens was incorporated. The area had quickly become a center, not only for education, but also for culture, commerce and industry. In 1991, the City of Athens and Clarke County were unified under one government.
Athens-Clarke County has retained many of its historic resources. The town currently has thirty-two individual resources and twelve districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places. These designations include several residential districts, the downtown commercial districts, the North Campus of the University of Georgia, as well as historic churches, schools and mill buildings that reflect the diverse history of Athens-Clarke County. One of the most notable, the Taylor-Grady House, located near downtown, is a National Historic Landmark associated with the Southern orator, Henry Grady. Numerous buildings in Clarke County were documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey. In 1986, a local historic preservation ordinance was enacted. Thirty individual resources and four districts are now protected under local designation. - NRHP, 1988
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