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Athens Courthouse Square Commercial Historic District

The Athens Courthouse Square Commercial Historic District is a historic district in . Athens was founded in 1818 when Robert Beaty and John D.
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Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
  • Type: Heritage site
  • Description: Athens, Alabama, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Limestone County, Alabama
  • Also known as: “Downtown” and “Downtown Historic District”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Old Athens, Alabama Main Post Office and Limestone County Confederate Soldiers Memorial.

Public building
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
The Old Main Post Office in , also known as Washington Street Courthouse Annex, was built in 1933. Located one block from the , the Neoclassical Revival building was constructed by the Works Progress Administration. is situated 570 feet west of Athens Courthouse Square Commercial Historic District.

Work of art
The is an outdoor marble Confederate memorial installed outside the Limestone County Courthouse in , in the United States.

Heritage site
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
The is a historic district in . The district lies to the west and north of the , and features homes of some of the town's most prominent residents. is situated 1,400 feet northwest of Athens Courthouse Square Commercial Historic District.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Athens and Tanner.

Photo: Nyttend, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city of 27,000 people in northern , USA about 15 miles south of the border and 20 miles west of . It is the county seat of Limestone county.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in central southern , , United States, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. is situated 5 miles south of Athens Courthouse Square Commercial Historic District.

Athens Courthouse Square Commercial Historic District

Latitude
34.80282° or 34° 48′ 10″ north
Longitude
-86.97106° or 86° 58′ 16″ west
Inception
October 10th, 1997
Open location code
866MR23H+4H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 470740367
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­heritage
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­commercial
Wiki­data ID
Q18148322
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Athens Courthouse Square Commercial Historic District”. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.