This historic Plantation Plain house has been unoccupied for some years but has recently been gifted to the county. There is hope that it will be restored or at least stabilized. It’s likely antebellum though I haven’t been able to locate a date for it.
Thought to be the oldest house in Lumpkin, this was originally a log dogtrot to which siding was later applied. It was the home of Jared Irwin, namesake nephew of the early Georgia governor. Upon the death of the younger Irwin’s parents, Alexander and Penelope Irwin, he was adopted by his uncle. He was in the first graduating class of Franklin College (now the University of Georgia), was an original settler of Lumpkin and served as clerk of the inferior court of Stewart County. During the Creek War of 1836, he was killed in the Battle of Shepherd’s Plantation and was tied to his horse, which returned his body to Lumpkin.
The house has been modified over time but the interior remains in largely original condition. The shed room along the rear and the front porch are later additions. It is also known as the Irwin-Partain House.
National Register of Historic Places
This is one of the most architecturally important, and earliest, homes in Lumpkin. It has recently been restored.
T. F. Lockwood, Jr.’s design for the fifth courthouse to be built in Stewart County, is one of his nicest designs, in my opinion. The pediment features a colorful cornucopia, unique among Georgia’s courthouses.
National Register of Historic Places
The old Lumpkin High School stands on the site of the Masonic Female Academy, which was built in 1852. After it burned in 1880, a coeducational school was built here. This structure, however, is of early 20th-century construction.
This is the authentically restored soda fountain inside Dr. Hatchett’s Drugstore Museum.
Lumpkin Commercial Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
This venerable structure, along with an old kitchen, are located in the back yard of the Bedingfield Inn. Thanks to Carly Elisabeth Kleinschmit for the identification. Cornelius Lynch was her great-great-great-great grandfather.
These historic commercial structures are located on Broad Street, in front of the courthouse.
Lumpkin Commercial Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Uptown Lumpkin Residential Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
This was once the Hobbs & Company General Store, which, in addition to Bull Durham tobacco, traded in furniture, stoves, and crockery.
Lumpkin Commercial Historic District, National Register of Historic Places