Update: The building partly visible at right, the Reid Hotel, was lost to fire.
Downtown Rochelle
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I was born in Rochelle, Ga. in 1937. Would like to find out any information on my relatives. Andrew Taylor, Ida Fields-Way, Joe L. Wesley?
I can remember visiting my “Granny” when she use to run the the old hotel. There was 17 of us grandkids so being the keeper of a hotel came in handy . I loved that old place and was sadden to hear it had brunt down.
Many years ago an architect friend of mine worked with the Rochelle Main Street program to “improve” the downtown. Their idea was not so much restoration as it was to turn Rochelle into something of a tourist destination by refurbishing buildings to resemble the town’s namesake Rochelle, France…something like a Helen, GA south. The idea didn’t go very far, and that is a good thing!