Category Archives: Warrenton GA

Queen Anne Cottage, Circa 1870, Warrenton

Warrenton Downtown Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Warrenton Post Office, 1938

This New Deal post office is still in use. Louis A. Simon was the supervising architect.

Warrenton Downtown Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

G. L. Haynes Funeral Home, Warrenton

This is an old African-American funeral home.

Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Warrenton

Pleasant Grove is one of the oldest and largest African-American congregations in Warrenton.

Wilkes Memorial Church of God In Christ, Warrenton

This is such a photogenic church with the Holiness Unto the Lord sign emblazoned across the front. I spoke with a very nice gentleman who was either the pastor or a deacon who noted that it was originally home to a white congregation, built in the 1890s or early 1900s, and became Wilkes Memorial in the early 1950s.

Antebellum House, Warrenton

I’ve contacted Warrenton’s Main Street office for assistance in identifying some of its historic houses with no luck so far, but I would be comfortable saying this house is antebellum, and quite early. It’s of a transitional type I’ve encountered in some of Georgia’s oldest counties.  The Victorian porch posts are obviously a later addition.

Wellborn Plantation, Circa 1795, Warrenton

This is one of Warrenton’s oldest and most historic homes. It was once the center of a large working plantation. In 1858, the owner,  George Washington Hardaway (15 August 1781-3 September 1858), willed the plantation to his daughter, Frances Markham Hardaway Wellborn (Mrs. Marshall Wellborn).

Pottle-West House, Circa 1810, Warrenton

If you’ve ever driven through downtown Warrenton, you’ve undoubtedly noticed this magnificent house. Information about its history is scarce, but the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation noted: …Originally designed in the Federal style, the house had an asymmetric front facade and side hall floor plan. Mid-19th century additions created the more symmetric Greek Revival appearance of the house that was later altered again with the addition of the decorative folk Victorian front porch…