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Bellevue
(La Grange) - 3/23/2023
Built in 1853–1855, this was the home of Senator Benjamin Harvey Hill, and is one of the state's finest examples of Greek Revival "domesticated temple” architecture
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Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
(Atlanta) - 3/23/2023
Built in 1891, this was the headquarters and bottling plant of the company, and where the transition from a soda fountain drink to a mass-marketed bottled soft drink took place
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Fox Theater (Atlanta) - 3/23/2023
Originally planned as part of a large Shrine Temple, the 4,665-seat auditorium was ultimately developed as a lavish movie theater and opened in 1929
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Georgia State Capitol
(Atlanta) - 3/23/2023
As the primary office building of Georgia's government, the Capitol is an architecturally and historically significant building which houses the Georgia State Senate and House of Representatives
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Herndon Home
(Atlanta) - 3/23/2023
An elegant Classical Revival mansion with Beaux Arts influences, it was the home of Alonzo Franklin Herndon, Atlanta's first black millionaire
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Historic Augusta Canal and Industrial District (Augusta) - 5/18/2003
One of the few successful industrial canals in the South; the area includes a three-level canal constructed in 1845-46
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Joel Chandler Harris House
(Atlanta) - 3/23/2023
A Queen Anne style house built in 1870, it was the 1881-1908 home to the editor of the Atlanta Constitution and author of the Uncle Remus Tales
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic District (Atlanta) - 5/9/1996
Includes important sites in the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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Octagon House (Columbus) - 3/23/2023
An historic octagon house built about 1830, claimed by the local historical society to be the nation's only known example of a double-octagon house
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Pine Mountain State Park - 3/23/2023
Notable because of the well-preserved CCC design, layout, and buildings of the western half of the park, and for its association with F. D. Roosevelt
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Stone Hall, Atlanta University (Atlanta) - 3/23/2023
Built in 1882, it is the oldest surviving building originally associated with Atlanta University - the first of all historically black colleges and universities in the South
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Springer Opera House (Columbus) - 3/23/2023
An historic 1871 theater noted for its architecture and state of preservation, as well as hosting an array of legendary performers
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Sweet Auburn Historic District (Atlanta) - 3/23/2023
An African American neighborhood along and surrounding Auburn Avenue, significant for its history and development as a segregated area under the state's Jim Crow laws
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U.S. Post Office and Courthouse
(Atlanta) - 3/23/2023
This Neo-Renaissance building was where many key civil rights cases were first heard and decided, and which played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement
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