Category Archives: –WHEELER COUNTY GA–
Oconee River, Wheeler-Treutlen County Line
Filed under --TREUTLEN COUNTY GA--, --WHEELER COUNTY GA--
Gable Front House, Glenwood
The house needs to be moved and the owner is trying to avoid razing it.
Filed under --WHEELER COUNTY GA--, Glenwood GA
Glenwood High School, 1920, 1933 & 1951, Wheeler County
In addition to an annex behind the original schoolhouse, the campus of the old Glenwood High School has a slightly more modern auditorium (above) built in 1951.
The original building is a one-story Spanish Mission Revival structure (not pictured due to inability to access) built in 1920; the two-story annex (above) was added between 1930-1933. In recent years, it has served as the campus for the Transitional Alternative Prep School.
National Register of Historic Places
Filed under --WHEELER COUNTY GA--, Glenwood GA
Alamo Baptist Church, Wheeler County
This historic African-American church was organized in 1892. It was re-established in 1954 by Reverend A. Goram. Deacons at the time of re-establishment were L. J. Robinson, H. Geter, Sr., C. H. Gillis, Jr., S. E. Chapman, J. A. Williams, and W. B. Bennett. Trustees were Rufus Mincey, Jessie Dixon, Charlie Little, and Jim Nesbit.
Filed under --WHEELER COUNTY GA--, Alamo GA
Phillips Grocery, Wheeler County
This was once a busy crossroads store. It’s also been known as the Short Run, among other names.
Filed under --WHEELER COUNTY GA--
Woodland Dependencies, Wheeler County
This impressive stock barn at Woodland (it may have been used as a dairy) is one of the largest of its type in this section of South Georgia. Several other smaller barns are scattered on the property but many have been lost over the years. The other two structures depicted are the most important surviving dependencies; my identifications are educated guesses and if I’m incorrect, I’ll update.
This was likely a commissary or warehouse.
This may have been the plantation schoolhouse. Its architecture suggests that it is somewhat contemporary to the main house.
Filed under --WHEELER COUNTY GA--
Woodland Tenant Houses, Wheeler County
These two houses were dependencies of Woodland. The front-gable example (above) is the newer of the two. Both are imminently endangered.
The Folk Victorian/Queen Anne example may have been an overseers house. (Interior view)
It’s a nice vernacular interpretation and features board-and-batten walls.
Filed under --WHEELER COUNTY GA--
McArthur House, Circa 1830s, Wheeler County
Situated behind the iconic Woodland plantation house is this amazing survivor, an enclosed dogtrot thought to have been built by the first McArthur family member to settle here; their ownership of the land dates to 1827. It is possibly the oldest house in Wheeler County. After use as a storage shed for many years, it was restored in 1993.
Filed under --WHEELER COUNTY GA--
