Covington
Real Estate
Mill Housing, Porterdale
Porterdale is one of the most intact mill towns in Georgia and that may be most evident in the housing constructed by the mills for their employees. Typically utilitarian, most of the homes are quite uniform in appearance but in Porterdale, there is some variation, since there were three major mills. This row, on Ivy […]
2024 Property Assessment Notices Issued in Jackson, GA: What You Need to Know
The Butts County Board of Commissioners has issued an update on the 2024 Notice of Assessments. As of April 29, 2024, property owners in Jackson, Georgia, have been sent notices detailing the fair market values of properties assessed on January 1, 2024. These notices are not tax bills but provide the assessed values of residential and commercial properties.
Mell-Dickson House, Circa 1838, Oxford
William H. Mell is believed to be the first owner of this home, more commonly known today as the Capers Dickson House, for the next owner, William Glen Capers “Judge” Dickson (1845-1914). Dickson was a private in Company 1, Cobb’s Legion, Infantry Batallion. Dickson served as a city judge in the courts of Newton County […]
High Point, Circa 1821 + 1840s, Oxford
This house, first known as High Point and originally located at the western edge of Covington, was built for John Pace Carr in the Federal style and is attributed to Collin Rogers. He and his brother Henry built many houses in Georgia in the 1830s, always aided by their enslaved laborers. The home transitioned to […]
Harris-Turner House, Circa 1836 + 1903, Covington
From inspiring Margaret Mitchell’s Hollywood vision of Ashley Wilkes’s home, Twelve Oaks, in Gone With the Wind, to appearances in In the Heat of the Night, The Vampire Diaries, Vacation, Life of the Party, The Family That Preys, and other movies and television shows, this magnificent home has perhaps come to symbolize Covington more than […]
Gable Front Farmhouse, Jasper County
I’m not sure if this was a primary residence or a tenant house but it’s located on what appears to be an historic farm, just outside the Monticello city limit. There’s also an abandoned general store or restaurant across the highway, though it may not be related to this property.
Regency Hall, Circa 1890, Covington
This is among the first grand houses one sees approaching Covington from the south, and it certainly leaves a lasting impression. Also known as the Lee-Rogers House, Regency Hall was built by Eugene Orson Lee, Sr., (1859-1930) for his wife Tommie Lillian Anderson Lee (1865-1928) and their seven children. Sources vary between 1890 and 1898 […]
Phillips-Turner-Kelly House, Circa 1810s, Jasper County
With the recent loss of the old Liberty Methodist Church, this early I-House [Plantation Plain] is the last significant landmark that I know of in the long lost settlement of Calvin, in Jasper County. The two-over-two central hallway dwelling also features shed rooms across the rear and, barely visible on the left side of this […]
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