Antebellum Architecture in Madison, Georgia

These shots were taken quickly on a damp 30 minute walk around some of the most historic and best preserved streets in this great little Southern town. I hope to get back next spring with more time and better light.

"The Historic District of Madison is one of the largest in the State of Georgia. Many of the nearly 100 Antebellum homes have been carefully restored. For example, Bonar Hall is one of the first of the grand-style homes built in Madison during the town's cotton-boom heyday between 1840-60.

Holiday Travel magazine named Madison "The Prettiest Small Town in America."

Madison was voted the #1 Small Town in America by Travel Holiday magazine.

Budget Travel magazine voted Madison as one of the world's 16 most picturesque villages.

Madison is featured on Georgia's Antebellum Trail, and is designated as one of the State's Historic Heartland cities.

Madison was founded in 1807 as seat of the newly formed Morgan County. The community was named for President James Madison.

The community was described in an early 19th century issue of "White's Statistics of Georgia" as "the most cultured and aristocratic town on the stagecoach route from Charleston to New Orleans."

In a 1849 edition of White's Statistics of Georgia, the following was written about Madison: "In point of intelligence, refinement, and hospitality, this town acknowledges no superior."

While many believe that Sherman spared the town because it was too beautiful to burn during his March to The Sea, the truth is that Madison was home to pro-Union Senator Joshua Hill. Hill had ties with General Sherman's brother at West Point, so his sparing the town was more political than appreciation of its beauty.[citation needed]

In 1895 Madison was audited as having in successful operation an oil mill with a capital of $35,000, a soap factory, a fertilizer factory, four steam ginneries, a mammoth compress, two carriage factories, a furniture factory, a grist and flouringmill, a bottling works, a distillery with a capacity of 120 gallons a day, an ice factory with a capital of $10,500, a canning factory with a capital of $10,000, a bank with a capital of $75,000, surplus $12,000, and a number of small industries operated by individual enterprise.

Currently, Madison has one of the largest historic districts in the state of Georgia, and tourists from all over the world come to marvel at the antebellum architecture of the homes."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison,_Georgia

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