Broad Acres

Broad Acres is a neighborhood in Clarke County, Georgia. Broad Acres is situated nearby to the neighborhood Rocksprings Homes, as well as near Dearing Street Historic District.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tree That Owns Itself and Seney–Stovall Chapel.

Tree That Owns Itself

Photo: Boston Public Library, Public domain.

The Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree that, according to legend, has legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet of its base. Also known as the Jackson Oak, the tree is at the corner of South Finley and Dearing Streets in Athens, Georgia, US.

Seney–Stovall Chapel

Chapel

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Seney–Stovall Chapel is a church building in Athens, Georgia, United States. Part of Cobbham Historic District, it is located in the grounds of the former Lucy Cobb Institute, itself now part of the University of Georgia.

Piedmont Athens Regional

Hospital

Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center is a hospital in Athens, Georgia. The hospital has 427 beds, a trauma center, and a neonatal intensive care unit.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Normaltown and Athens.

Normaltown

Neighborhood

Normaltown is a neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, by the Athens Regional Medical Center and named for the State Normal School formerly located there. It was the first area of Athens to be wired for electricity after the completion of the Mitchell Bridge hydroelectric plant in 1896.

Athens

Photo: Rob, CC BY 2.0.

Athens is a vibrant college town of 127,000 people in the Classic Heartland region of Georgia. Athens is most popular in the late summer and fall when students, families of students or college football fans visit the University of Georgia.

Five Points

Neighborhood

Five Points is a retail corridor and neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, centered on the intersection of Milledge Avenue and Lumpkin Street. It occupies the South-Southwest edge of the University of Georgia campus.

Broad Acres

Type: Neighborhood
Category: locality
Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.95484° or 33° 57′ 17″ north

Longitude

-83.39266° or 83° 23′ 34″ west

Elevation

741 feet (226 metres)

Open location code

865RXJ34+WW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 154172970

OpenStreetMap feature

place=neighbourhood

GeoNames ID

4184455

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