Fort Gaines Historic District

	Fort Gaines Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
Location	Roughly bounded by Chattahoochee River, GA 37, GA 39, College, Commerce and Jefferson Sts., Fort Gaines, Georgia
Coordinates	31°36′27″N 85°03′02″W / 31.6075°N 85.050556°W
Area	300 acres (1.2 km2)
Built	1930
Architect	Multiple
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Gothic, Neo-Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	84000970
Added to NRHP	May 17, 1984

The Fort Gaines Historic District in Fort Gaines, Georgia, is a 300 acres (1.2 km²) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.^[1]

It is roughly bounded by the Chattahoochee River, GA 37, GA 39, College, Commerce and Jefferson Streets. It includes Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Neo-Classical Revival architecture., It includes the Clay County Courthouse.

It included 327 contributing buildings.^[2]

The NRHP nomination stated:

Fort Gaines is a good intact example of a frontier Georgia town planned and developed in the nineteenth century for a combination of military, political, and commercial purposes. It is historically significant in the areas of exploration and settlement, military history, community planning and development, architecture, landscape architecture, commerce, industry, transportation, politics and government, and historic archaeology.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Carolyn Brooks (January 20, 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Fort Gaines Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved August 15, 2017. With 48 photos from 1993.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpdoc-2] Carolyn Brooks (January 20, 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Fort Gaines Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved August 15, 2017. With 48 photos from 1993.

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