Downtown Athens Historic District

Downtown Athens Historic District is a park in Clarke County, Georgia. Downtown Athens Historic District is situated nearby to the neighborhood Park View Homes, as well as near Dearing Street Historic District.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Double-barreled cannon and Georgia Theatre.

Double-barreled cannon

Cannon

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The double-barreled cannon is an American Civil War-era experimental weapon and is now a modern landmark located in Athens, Georgia. While originally built for warfare, the cannon never saw battle.

Georgia Theatre

Music venue

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Georgia Theatre is a live music venue and event space in Athens, Georgia. National and local acts across all genres have performed at the theatre, including rock, folk, country, indie, alternative, hip hop and electronic.

Morton Theatre

Theater building

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The Morton Theatre, located in downtown Athens, Georgia, at 195 West Washington Street, is one of the first vaudeville theatres in the United States uniquely built, owned, and operated by an African-American businessman: Monroe Morton.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Athens and Normaltown.

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.

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.

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. Five Points is situated 1½ miles southwest of Downtown Athens Historic District.

Downtown Athens Historic District

Type: Park
Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.95984° or 33° 57′ 35″ north

Longitude

-83.37599° or 83° 22′ 34″ west

Elevation

764 feet (233 metres)

Open location code

865RXJ5F+WJ

GeoNames ID

4192022

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Localities in the Area

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