- Collection:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Presentation Slide Collection, 1968-2000
- Title:
- Old Dominion
- Creator:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Contributor to Resource:
- Seibert, David
- Date of Original:
- 1973
- Subject:
- Architecture
Historic sites--Georgia--Hancock County
Historic buildings--Georgia--Hancock County
Architecture, Domestic--Georgia--Hancock County
Vernacular architecture
Cultural property--Protection
Historic preservation--Georgia
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Hancock County, Sparta, 33.2757, -82.97626
- Medium:
- color slides
vernacular architecture
historic preservation
historic buildings - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- From the "Old Dominion" historic marker (Georgia Historical Commission Marker Number 070-5), and additional commentary by David Seibert (1941-2020), a local historian who specialized in Georgia historic markers: At “Old Dominion,” then the home of John Lucas, in late December 1806, the first meeting of the Methodist North Georgia Conference was held. Although Sparta then was the extreme western appointment in the conference, preachers came from as far away as the North Carolina seaboard to the session. Earlier that year John Lucas with other Methodists in this section had been instrumental in the founding of Sparta’s first Methodist Church and the "Sparta Circuit." Both John Rozier's book "The Houses of Hancock: 1785-1865" and John Linley's book "Architecture of Middle Georgia: The Oconee Area" concur that Old Dominion was, architecturally, one of the most important houses in Sparta. The house had been deteriorating since the 1920s, and finally collapsed in the early 1980s. The site eventually became an industrial park. Variant names include: Old Dominion. See "Old Dominion" historical marker, https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=55552
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_333
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_333#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_333/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Rights:
-
