Acoa

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Acoa
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Nearest city Hollywood, Georgia
Coordinates 34°39′09″N83°28′16″W / 34.65250°N 83.47111°W / 34.65250; -83.47111 Coordinates: 34°39′09″N83°28′16″W / 34.65250°N 83.47111°W / 34.65250; -83.47111
Area22 acres (8.9 ha)
Built1834
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP reference No. 82002446 [1]
Added to NRHPJune 22, 1982

Acoa, in Habersham County, Georgia, near Hollywood, Georgia, was built in 1834. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The listing included three contributing buildings. [1]

It was deemed significant as a plain but fine example of a Greek Revival-style antebellum country house of Northern Georgia. [2]

It is located about five miles northeast of Clarkesville, Georgia, on a mill pond. A nineteenth-century gabled-roofed, fieldstone smokehouse and a twentieth-century workshop, with the latter on the site of a nineteenth-century detached kitchen. The mill pond is southwest of the house and has an early-1900s masonry-and-concrete dam. There are stone foundation ruins of an mill there. [2]

It may be located on what is now Boyd Wood Road.

It was the childhood home of Clelia Peronneau Mathewes McGowan, who was the first woman to hold public office in South Carolina. [3]

Its historic documentation states it is located on Mathis (Mathewes) Rd. east of the old Tallulah Falls Highway, near Hollywood. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Acoa". National Park Service . Retrieved December 3, 2019. With accompanying 13 photos from 1980
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-03-23. Retrieved 2020-03-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)