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Historic Lodge Likely To Be Demolished-Dalton, Georgia

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Masonic Lodge No. 238 is a mixed-use commercial building in Dalton, Georgia. On the first floor were different stores, but on the second floor, it was the local lodge for Black men in the town of Dalton. The lodge was built in 1915 by Dutch Hanson, Thomas Cunningham, Jim Richards, Dan Smith, and Harrison Jackson.

The lodge was built in an area of Dalton that was considered the heart of the Black community. Despite being placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996, the building has fallen into disrepair. In 2019, the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation placed it on its list of Places in Peril. In April 2023, City Council voted to have the building demolished. The city has currently held off demolition while giving members a chance to identify funding support until the end of the year.

Images below are from the NRHP application.

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The Emery Street School-Dalton, Georgia

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The Emery Street School was opened in 1886 to provide a public education to Black schoolchildren in Dalton, Georgia. A fire in 1909 destroyed the school. It was rebuilt and stayed open until 1967. Integration closed the school. It then served the community as the integrated City Park Junior High School.

In 2003, it became The Emery Center, a multicultural heritage center. The City of Dalton threatened to close the building in 2013 when it was in much-needed repairs. Enough money was raised to make upgrades and keep the building open. The space is used for community events and can be toured a few days a week.

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Mount Salem Missionary Baptist Church-Rocky Face, Georgia

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This church is a historic African American church in Rocky Face, Georgia. The land was sold by W. J. Copeland in 1886 to church trustees. The building was constructed in 1897 to be a church and school.

Information was pulled from this article in the Dalton Daily Citizen-News.

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Dunnagan Church-Rocky Face, Georgia

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This church is alternately known as Dunagan and Liberty Church. This church in Whitfield County in 1899 with additions in the 1940s and 1960s.

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Cohutta African American Civic District-Cohutta, Georgia

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Whitfield County

Located in Cohutta, Georgia, there is a small group of two churches and a school that represent small Black community that lived in this north Georgia town. The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation listed it as a Place in Peril. The Andrews Chapel, shown above, was built in 1902 and moved to it’s current location on the edge of downtown in 1923. The building is need of serious repair.

The Old Colored School was built in 1930 and was used until 1953. It was used as a fellowship hall by the two congregations located closest to it.

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Farrar Monument-Dalton, Georgia

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Located in the West Hill Cemetery, the Farrar monument memorializes William Farrar, founder of Farrar Lumber Company, Mary Agnes, Floyd, and Mary. The Farrar family relocated to Dalton after the Civil War where the family built the prosperous lumber company. The monument is listed on the Smithsonian’s Save Our Outdoor Sculpture list.