National Register of Historic Places

Acoa

Hollywood, Habersham County, Georgia
Listed
June 21, 1982
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
82002446

About this property

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. It was deemed significant as a plain but fine example of a Greek Revival-style antebellum country house of Northern Georgia. 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 a mill there. It was the childhood home of Clelia Peronneau Mathewes McGowan, who was the first woman to hold public office in South Carolina. Its historic documentation states it is located on Mathis (Mathewes) Rd. east of the old Tallulah Falls Highway, near Hollywood.

Location

Hollywood, Habersham County, Georgia
34.65189, -83.47100

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When was Acoa listed on the National Register?

Acoa was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 1982.

What type of historic resource is Acoa?

Acoa is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Acoa?

The period of significance for Acoa is recorded as the industrial era.

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