National Register of Historic Places
The following Chattahoochee properties are on the National Register
John F. Beavers House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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Roscoe-Dunaway Gardens Historic District
The Roscoe-Dunaway Gardens Historic District is a rural historic district that focuses on the small crossroads community of Roscoe, nearby outlying farmsteads, and the designed landscape of Dunaway Gardens. Roscoe is located on high ground near the center of the district with roads extending out from the community in all directions connecting the outlying farmsteads located on knolls with Roscoe.
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Redwine House (in the Roscoe-Dunaway Gardens Historic District)
At the corner of Hutcheson Ferry Road and Roscoe Road is the Hutcheson-Redwine House with two large barns in the rear yard and a seed house across the street. This two-story house, dating from c.1840, features a Greek Revival doorway, one-story porch extending the length of the front facade, end chimneys, and four-over-four windows. The interior floor plan includes two rooms over two rooms with a central hallway. The landscape of the historic residence consists of a good example of an ornamental yard with the landscape of work to the rear of the house is located at the Hutcheson-Redwine Homeplace (see photo 7). A retaining wall constructed of field stone open to a set on steps with fieldstone piers on either side of the steps. A hedgerow is located on either side of the front walkway to the porch. Large hardwood are located along each side of the hedgerows. The hedgerows are a part of an original boxwood garden. The barns are two of the most elaborate within the district. These wood-framed buildings are characterized by massive roofs covered in metal. The larger barn features a square cupola with a pyramidal roof (refer to photo 8). The larger barn features a square cupola with a pyramidal roof (refer to photo 8). |
Phillips Homeplace
Located opposite the Hutcheson-Redwine Homeplace is the Phillips Homeplace. The house is a gable ell cottage with a rear ell addition. A family cemetery consisting of ten graves is located on a high knoll near the house. A wood picket enclosure surrounds the cemetery site. The Phillips Homeplace conveys the New South landscaping through the stone retaining wall and hardwood trees.The Varner complex contains a residential structure, nonhistoric outbuildings, and a family cemetery. The residential structure is reputed to contain a log structure beneath the current siding, but it appears nonhistoric at a cursory inspection. The Phillips property, situated along Hutcheson Ferry Road, contains a residence and several outbuildings (see photo 6). The L-shaped Phillips House has been altered with the addition of siding and a picture window, but it still retains much of its original detail. The Phillips family cemetery, situated on a high knoll near the house, includes approximately ten graves. Seven are marked with field stones and three with stone markers. A wood picket enclosure surrounds the cemetery site, which is covered in a hardy stand of vinca minor (Periwinkle) groundcover. Hutcheson Ferry Road is not passable by automobile to the west of the residence. A contemporary residence, dating from the 1950s, is located at the end of the improved roadway. The trace of the original road is still apparent in the landscape. Indigenous vegetation lines the route which extends to the river's edge to the site of the former ferry crossing. |
The Varner Complex
The Varner Complex contains a residential structure, nonhistoric outbuildings, and a family cemetery. The residential structure is reputed to contain a log structure beneath the current siding, but it appears nonhistoric at a cursory inspection. The Varner family cemetery is the most elaborate of the family cemeteries found within the district. The cemetery contains about ten marked graves. The most modest mark the graves of the original owners of this tract: J.
H. Varner, died 1836, and Mary Varner, died 1863 or 1868. Other monuments include four boxed graves and several decorative stone monuments, dating from the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
West of the family cemetery, the Varner property contains the site of a former ferry. An original boat structure is reputed to be intact beneath the waters of the Chattahoochee River. Also contained within the property between the river and the cemetery on fairly steep terrain, are what are thought to be military trenches. These long narrow ditches are approximately three to four feet in depth. However, no formal archaeological study has been conducted within the
boundary of the district.
The Varner Complex contains a residential structure, nonhistoric outbuildings, and a family cemetery. The residential structure is reputed to contain a log structure beneath the current siding, but it appears nonhistoric at a cursory inspection. The Varner family cemetery is the most elaborate of the family cemeteries found within the district. The cemetery contains about ten marked graves. The most modest mark the graves of the original owners of this tract: J.
H. Varner, died 1836, and Mary Varner, died 1863 or 1868. Other monuments include four boxed graves and several decorative stone monuments, dating from the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
West of the family cemetery, the Varner property contains the site of a former ferry. An original boat structure is reputed to be intact beneath the waters of the Chattahoochee River. Also contained within the property between the river and the cemetery on fairly steep terrain, are what are thought to be military trenches. These long narrow ditches are approximately three to four feet in depth. However, no formal archaeological study has been conducted within the
boundary of the district.