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Railroad sign for Constitution, in Dekalb County, which was absorbed into Atlanta. The following is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Georgia. Ghost towns can include sites in various states of disrepair and abandonment. Some sites no longer have any trace of civilization and have reverted to pasture land or empty fields.
The Old Atlanta Prison Farm is an abandoned, city-owned prison complex in southwest DeKalb County in the U.S. state of Georgia. From approximately 1920 to 1990, the farm was worked by prisoners to produce food for the region's prison system. [1] [2] There are limited historical records detailing the operation of the farm, especially after 1965.
Hardman Farm. / 34.68472°N 83.70806°W / 34.68472; -83.70806. Hardman Farm State Historic Site is a Georgia state historic site near Helen, Georgia. The historic site includes an 1870 Italianate mansion [1] and a gazebo-topped Native American burial mound. [2] Other structures include a kitchen, horse barn, dairy barn, and spring house.
Barren. Four miles (6.4 km) southeast of Mystic, the town was named because of its location in a canyon. The town was a booming mining camp with a population of 400 people, during its heyday. When the mines began to fail, the town was doomed to be one of the Black Hills ghost towns.
The Wormsloe Historic Site, originally known as Wormsloe Plantation, is a state historic site near Savannah, Georgia, in the southeastern United States. The site consists of 822 acres (3.33 km 2) protecting part of what was once the Wormsloe Plantation, a large estate established by one of Georgia's colonial founders, Noble Jones (c. 1700-1775).
The name Koinonia is an ancient Greek word, used often in the New Testament, meaning deep fellowship. [3] Koinonia members divested themselves of personal wealth and joined a "common purse" economic system. They envisioned an interracial community where blacks and whites could live and work together in a spirit of partnership.
The Tioga County Real Property Tax Service describes the property as a 71-acre horse farm, purchased in April 2023 for $390,000 by Michael Romanik, of Bloomfield, Pennsylvania. Jobs Unemployment ...
The Sol Akins Farm near Statesboro in Bulloch County, Georgia dates from c.1864. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [1] The Sol Akins House is a two-story Plantation Plain -style house with brick exterior chimneys at its ends, and a rear ell, and a Z-shaped back porch. It was added in the 1880s onto an original c ...