Roughly bounded by Walker St., 12th St., Waters St., Corker Row, 4th St., and Jones Ave., Waynesboro, Georgia. County/parish: Burke.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 25, 2009. NRIS 09000153.
429 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 7 contributing structures.
The Waynesboro Historic District in Waynesboro, Georgia, is made up of 486 contributing buildings, sites and structures. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 25, 2009. The district is notable for its architecture and the roles it played in community planning and development, commerce, industry, politics/government and black ethnic heritage. It includes the previously separately listed John James Jones House, Waynesboro Commercial Historic District and the Haven Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, as well as the "carpenter Romanesque" Burke County Courthouse, which was part of the multiple property submission County Courthouses in Georgia. The district was the featured listing in the National Park Service's weekly list of April 3, 2009.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207183