Harvey’s has been in business for many years but I believe this structure was originally a general/grocery store. The old RC sign looks like it’s been around for a long time.
Category Archives: Lumpkin GA
Folk Victorian House, Lumpkin
Uptown Residential Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Filed under --STEWART COUNTY GA--, Lumpkin GA
Cross Gable House, Lumpkin
Pigtail Alley Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Filed under --STEWART COUNTY GA--, Lumpkin GA
Hester House, Lumpkin
Pigtail Alley Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Filed under --STEWART COUNTY GA--, Lumpkin GA
General Clement Evans Boyhood Home, Circa 1835, Lumpkin
One of Georgia’s best-known citizens during his lifetime, General Clement Anselm Evans (1833-1911) was born near Lumpkin to Anselm & Sarah Evans and grew up in this house. He was admitted to the bar at the age of 18 and married Mary Allen “Allie” Walton in 1854 . He was soon thereafter elected to a Stewart County judgeship and five years later was elected a state senator on the Know-Nothing ticket.
In April 1861, Evans resigned his legislative post and joined the Confederate army as a private. He became commander of the Bartow Guards (Thirty-first Georgia Infantry) in 1862, fought at Shenandoah and was present at nearly every battle of the Army of Northern Virginia. Evans was promoted to brigadier general in 1864.
After the war, General Evans was ordained a Methodist minister. He served at least six congregations in North Georgia over the course of 26 years. Upon the death of his wife in 1884, he married Sarah Ann Avary Howard. After retiring from the ministry, he edited the 13-volume Confederate Military History and coedited the influential Cyclopedia of Georgia. He was a co-founder and Georgia Division commander of the United Confederate Veterans and served the organization as commander-in-chief from 1909-1911. His body lay in state in the state capitol and his funeral was heavily attended. Evans County was named in his honor in 1914.
Pigtail Alley Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Filed under --STEWART COUNTY GA--, Lumpkin GA
Zeph Mathis House, Lumpkin
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.
Filed under --STEWART COUNTY GA--, Lumpkin GA
Jared Irwin House, Circa 1830, Lumpkin
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
Filed under --STEWART COUNTY GA--, Lumpkin GA
Stewart County Courthouse, 1923, Lumpkin
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 cornucopias on the pediment and the sunflower medallions on the frieze are artistic decorations likely unique among Georgia courthouses.
National Register of Historic Places
Filed under --STEWART COUNTY GA--, Lumpkin GA
Old Lumpkin High School
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.
Filed under --STEWART COUNTY GA--, Lumpkin GA
