Category Archives: –TERRELL COUNTY GA–

Double Shotgun Tenant House, Terrell County

This once-common form has become quite rare today. The house is divided into two residences by a wall through the middle.

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General Store, Circa 1919, Herod

Hill-Price-Brickle House, Circa 1890, Bronwood

This Second Empire house is one of the finest examples of the style I’ve ever seen in rural Georgia. The present owners, Roy and Wilma Brickle, began its restoration in 1990 and have done an exemplary job.

Update: The house was lost to fire in late 2020 or early 2021.

Queen Anne House, Bronwood

This unusual Queen Anne features shingle siding on the eaves.

Bronwood United Methodist Church, 1883, Terrell County

From the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church: Camp meetings held at Coney’s Head on Kinchfoonee Creek in the 1850s inspired the organization of Salem Church and the erection of a building in 1857 on land purchased from Thomas Caldwell. When the new church, Brown’s Station, was built in 1883, Salem’s membership declined and its building was sold to the African Methodist Church. Bronwood Church is of virgin pine cut from the area forests…

 

Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, 1960, Dawson

This congregation was organized in 1957 and services were held in the Dawson Woman’s Clubhouse until the church was completed in 1960. It was designed by Edward Vason Jones, a prominent architect of his day.

Howard’s Grocery, Dawson

This was a grocery and residence.

 

Pure Oil Station, Circa 1920, Dawson

Dawson Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Warehouse, Dawson

Dawson Historic District, National Register of Historic Places