Mell-Whitworth House

Mell-Whitworth House is a house in Clarke County, Georgia which is located on Dearing Street. Mell-Whitworth House is situated nearby to the community center Epsilon Pi, as well as near Delta Sigma Phi.

Places of Interest Nearby

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. Tree That Owns Itself is situated 1,300 feet east of Mell-Whitworth House.

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. Seney–Stovall Chapel is situated 1,000 feet northwest of Mell-Whitworth House.

Hill First Baptist Church

Church

Hill First Baptist Church "is the oldest African American church in the Athens, Georgia community". It is a contributing property to the Reese Street Historic District. Hill First Baptist Church is situated 1,200 feet northeast of Mell-Whitworth House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Athens and Five Points.

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.

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.

Mell-Whitworth House

Type: House
Address: 398 Dearing Street, Athens, 30605
Categories: building and residential building
Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.9544° or 33° 57′ 16″ north

Longitude

-83.38646° or 83° 23′ 11″ west

Open location code

865RXJ37+QC

OpenStreetMap ID

way 296008688

OpenStreetMap feature

building=detached

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