I believe Unadilla is in the process of attempting to rehabilitate some of these properties.
Abandoned Storefronts, Unadilla
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Farmers Peanut Company, Unadilla
Planter’s Warehouse, Circa 1903, Unadilla
One of Georgia’s most attractive cotton warehouses, Unadilla’s Planter’s Warehouse was earlier owned and operated by W. B. Hodges and Frank Giles as Giles and Hodge Farm Center. It, along with all of Unadilla’s historic commercial district, should be placed on the National Register of Historic Places. I hope such an effort is underway.
Dooling, Georgia
There’s little left of Dooling today, but it was once a busy railroad siding. The city hall is located in the trailer on the right. I believe the brick building may have been a small store. My father remembers stopping here in the late 1960s with C. C. (K) Hall when he was working the SCL railroad and buying hoop cheese and pennywheel crackers at a store here. He also recalls that the store owner had one arm, but did everything with ease.
Becky Craig writes: My grandfather, Pernal Patrick, married Laura Pauline Dooling, the daughter of Michael Dooling, Jr., and Laura A. Dawson, and named the town for his wife. Laura was an accomplished musician who taught her oldest son to play the organ. Pernal and Laura gave land to build the Baptist church, but the first church burned before it was completed. Laura died before the second church was built and was never able to play hymns in the church.
Byromville United Methodist Church, 1912
This congregation was organized as Friendship M. E. Church by Thomas Sweatinger, before Byromville was incorporated. Two structures, located elsewhere, were built before 1855, when a wooden church was built at this location. Construction of the present church began in 1908, though it wasn’t completed until 1912. Reverend Charles G. Earnest was pastor at the time.
Bread of Life Holiness Church, Byromville
Methodist Church, 1905, Lilly
Though no longer used as a church in the traditional sense, this landmark is used for receptions, reunions and the like.
Lilly Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
W. R. Groves Cotton Warehouse, Byromville
This has been an active warehouse since at least the 1930s.
Josey Grocery, Byromville
Thanks to Carol A Lokey for identifying this as her grandfather, James M. Josey’s store.
Eric Cawthon wrote: Byromville is a place I will always cherish. Josey’s was the place. I remember Josey Sr. in the makeshift office in the corner of the store. Gene Carroll who worked there for years and always came back and hung around when he was on vacation…..Josey Jr. gave me a job as a bag boy. He was a good man to me and my family.
Mark Cawthon shared this: This is where my mother (Ella Cawthon) shopped. She would be given old bananas and she would bake the store a banana cake. I remember the Old Mr. Josey and younger James Josey. You would buy the groceries and Jene or James would deliver them to the Methodist Parsonage in a new 1967 Ford pickup. You had to step down into the store and the floors were narrow wooden planks. I sold the Grit newspaper to Mrs. Josey every week.
Dooly County Courthouse, 1892, Vienna
Vienna’s Romanesque Revival courthouse was completed in 1892. It originally featured a spire, which was later removed due to structural concerns. William H. Parkins was the architect.
National Register of Historic Places