HAWC Shuttle/Walking Tour Dates

year Athens Foundry established

1851

decade Athens Foundry becomes Civil War munitions factory

1860s

year Ware-Lyndon house built for Dr. Ware

1845

year Ware-Lyndon House sold to Dr. Lyndon

1880

decade Ware-Lyndon House sold to Athens

1930s

year Ware-Lyndon house became arts center

1999

year Harold Rittenberry born

1938

year Seaboard Airlines Depot built

1891

year Southern Railway Depot built

1909

year Southern Railway Depot becomes ACCA

1967

year First A.M.E. organized

1866

year first A.M.E. built

1916

year First United Methodist organized

1825

year First United Methodist reconstructed

1852

day Dr. Waddel founded First Presbyterian

Christmas 1820

years Tinsley-Stern house built

1833-1834

year Tinsley-Stern house bought by First Presbyterian

1992

year First Presbyterian built

1855

year double-barreled cannon built

1863

year City Hall Built

1904

year old federal building built

1906

year new federal building built

1967

year Spirit of Athens built

1996

decades Athens Republique ran

1910-1920s

year Morton Theater built

1910

year Ross Crane house built

1842

year Ross Crane and brother moved to GA

1830

year Young Women’s Christian Association built

1913

year Snow Tire Company opens

1945

year First Baptist Church constituted

1830

year First Baptist moved to Washington Street

1860

year present First Baptist Church built

1921

Year Knox Institute Carnegie Library built

1912

year Stevens Thomas House built

1849

year Stevens Thomas House moved

1912

year Ida Mae Hiram passed and First A.M.E. bought her house

1979

year Reese Street School built

1914

year Reese Street School accredited

1922

year Knox institute founded

1868

year Knox institute closed

1928

year Hill First Baptist Church built

1967

year Howell Cobb elected governor

1851

year Howell Cobb elected congressman

1854

year Howell Cobb appointed Secretary of Treasury

1857

year T.R.R. Cobb House built

1834

year T.R.R. Cobb added columns, balcony, and octagonal wings

1852

year Fire Hall No. 2 built

1901

decade Fire Hall No. 2 became Historic Athens office

1980s

year Fire Hall No. 1 reconstructed

1913

year Oliver Prince bought Prince Ave

1836

year Oliver Prince dies in shipwreck

1837

year Prince Ave resurveyed and sold

1846

year UGA President’s House Built

1857

year UGA President’s house gifted to UGA

1949

year Taylor-Grady House built

1844

decade Taylor-Grady House sold to William Grady

1860s

year E.K. Lumpkin House built

1857

year E.K. Lumpkin bought house

1884

year Franklin-Upson house built

1847

decade Franklin-Upson house sold by Upson family

1970s

year James White House built

1923

time frame Sledge Family arrived in Athens

early 1800s

year Sledge-Cobb-Spalding House built

1861

year Sledge-Cobb-Spalding House sold to one of Howell Cobb’s sons

1869

year Dr. Phinizy Spalding bought Sledge-Cobb-Spalding House

1974

year Jester House Built

1889

decade Jester House remodeled

1970s

year Jester House restored by Dr. Phinizy Spalding

1984

year Jester House sold to Barrie Buck

1989

year Vaughn-Simpson house built

1923

year Stanton House built

1902

year Moss Side built

1834

year Moss Side sold to Moss Family

1863

year Moss System developed

1876

year William Lorenzo Moss died

1957

year Proctor-Benson House Built

1910

year Jeanette Rankin and Lucy Stanton founded GA Peace Society

1928

year Taylor-DeRenne House Built

1856

year Cheney House Built

1893

year Phinizy-Hunnicut House built

1855

year Phinizy-Hunnicutt House sold to Athens Mayor James Hunnicut

1889

years Lucy Cobb Institute ran

1859-1931

year Seney-Stovall Chapel built

1881

decade Seney-Stovall Chapel restored

1970s

year Hamilton House built

1861

year Lipscomb House built

1908

year A.P. Dearing House built

1857

year Albin P. Dearing died

1885

year Eugenia Dearing died and A.P. Dearing House sold to A.P. Dearing, Jr.

1912

years spent constructing Dearing-Wilkins House

1860-1865

year Alfred L. Dearing sold Dearing-Wilkins House

1878

year Dearing-Wilkins House sold to Professor Leon Henri Charbonnier

1886

year Dearing-Wilkins House bought by John J. Wilkins

1909

year Dearing-Wilkins house sold to Alpha Phi Sorority

2019

year Thomas-Carithers House built

1896

year of Chicago World’s Fair that inspired Thomas-Carithers House

1893

year Hubert Owens graduated UGA for horticulture, agriculture, and landscape gardening

1926

year Hubert Owens founded UGA landscape architecture program

1928

years Hubert Owens was UGA Dean of Environment and Design

1969-1973

years Hubert Owens House was built

1940-1941