Holcomb’s opened their first location in nearby White Plains in 1971. Still open, the original is as famous for its sawdust dining room floor as it is for its Brunswick stew. People drive from miles around to buy the stuff by the gallon! This location, opened in 1981, is a bit better known, just because Greensboro is a bigger town than White Plains, and it seems appropriate that it’s located in an old gas station. George Dyar writes: Amoco Oil built this station in the early 1960s. John Bledsoe was the manager. 2 bay filing station and changed/repaired many logging and farm tires. Used them many times.
Tag Archives: Greensboro GA
Davis-Evans House, 1854, Greensboro
Greensboro Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
This imposing home, one of the oldest in Greensboro, served for many years as the Methodist parsonage and is now the church office.
Filed under --GREENE COUNTY GA--, Greensboro GA
Greensboro United Methodist Church, 1911
From the First United Methodist Church of Greensboro website: The Methodist Church as an organization in Greene County dates back to 1797, six years after the death of John Wesley, when Bishop Francis Asbury appointed 28 year old James Jenkins Pastor of the Washington Circuit…
During the early years in Greensboro, Methodists conducted Worship services in the Presbyterian Church where Bishop Asbury preached in 1799. A log meeting house was built around 1799-1800 on Laurel Avenue. During 1825-1826, this log meeting house was replaced with a frame structure on the same site. The frame structure was later moved to a location on Broad Street just west of the current Broad Street Campus. In 1859, the frame structure was replaced with a brick building at a cost of approximately $8,000. Because of increasing train traffic interrupting Worship services, planning for a building at a new location was started in 1908. The present Broad Street Campus church was built in 1911 at a cost of approximately $23,000 and expanded/renovated in 1959, 1973 and 1994.
Buckhead Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Filed under --GREENE COUNTY GA--, Greensboro GA
Confederate Memorial, 1898, Greensboro
Located on the Greene County Courthouse lawn, this memorial was erected at a cost of $2000 by the women of Greene County at a time when Confederate memorial-building was at its zenith. The “women” were members of the Confederate Memorial Association and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The dedication in August 1898 was nearly left out of the local paper due to news of the Spanish-American War.
National Register of Historic Places
Filed under --GREENE COUNTY GA--, Greensboro GA
Copelan Building, 1889,Greensboro
Greensboro Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
This was the Towne House Restaurant for many years.
Filed under --GREENE COUNTY GA--, Greensboro GA
McCommons Big Store, 1858, Greensboro
Greensboro Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Built by Charles Alfred Davis, Sr., in the late 1850s and opened in 1860, this structure featured a blacksmith shop and stables in its early days. Later, J. H. McCommons purchased it and it became known as “The Big Store”. For a fascinating history, please visit: http://www.mccommonsfuneralhome.com/about/about.php
Filed under --GREENE COUNTY GA--, Greensboro GA
Greensboro Post Office, 1936
This New Deal Post Office is still in use and features murals by artist Carson Davenport (1908-1972). Davenport served as director of the WPA Art School & Gallery in Big Stone Gap, Virginia and was Chairman of the Art Department at Averett Collge from 1943-1969.
Above: “The Burning of Greensborough” (Detail)
Both Images Above: “Cotton Picking in Georgia” (Detail)
Greensboro Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Filed under --GREENE COUNTY GA--, Greensboro GA