I’m out on a limb identifying this structure, but I believe it’s an old precinct house, or courthouse as they’re often known in Southwest Georgia. It certainly looks like dozens of other structures used for this purpose that I have documented over the years. I’ll go further and suggest it may be the Oakland, or Oakland Road, precinct. [I found Oakland, Georgia, on Google Earth, just up the road from this building. Oakland never had a post office; it’s just one of those places that is/was locally known as a neighborhood.] Historically, this area has been characterized by large plantations centered primarily around extensive pecan orchards. It’s a very rural area on the fringes of Albany’s continued northward expansion.
I’ll gladly update if I learn more.
These buildings are in the triangle at the intersection Palmyra Road, Oakland Road and James Pond Road in Lee County. I know the larger building in the background of the photograph was definitely a voting precinct. It was where I first voted in 1988.
Thanks, Jeff. I presumed that was what the newer building was used for. Perhaps this served the purpose until they built a larger precinct.
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