I had an interesting conversation with an 85-year-old resident who had returned to Hillsboro after spending much of his career working on fishing boats on the Georgia coast; he noted that this was the Masonic lodge, but throughout its history had also served as a general store, and as the signage indicates, more recently a barbecue restaurant. I would guess it was built in the 1880s or 1890s but I’m not sure.
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This historic congregation dates to 1808.
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Seen from the North, on GA 11, coming from Monticello.
This now serves as the Hillsboro community center. It’s a wonderful preservation of a typical early-20th-centry rural school house.
Seen from the South, on GA 11, coming from Round Oak.
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Placed by the Sergeant Jasper of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1928, this bronze tablet honors Hillsboro’s favorite son, Benjamin Harvey Hill.
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Vanishing North Georgia Photographs by Brian Brown 