Broad Street Historic District (Augusta, Georgia)

Broad Street Historic District
Lamar Building on Broad Street
Location Broad Street between 5th and 13th Streets, Augusta, Georgia
Area 70 acres (28 ha)
Built 1780 (1780)
Architectural style Mixed (more Than 2 Styles From Different Periods)
NRHP Reference # 80001226[1]
Added to NRHP April 28, 1980

The Broad Street Historic District in Augusta, Georgia is a 70 acres (28 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1980. It includes 158 contributing buildings.[1]

The Historic District portion of Broad Street stretches from Thirteenth to Fifth Streets. Starting at Thirteenth Street (U.S. Route 25/Georgia State Route 4), Broad Street picks up the US 25 Business designation. This section has double-sided median parking. At Eleventh Street, the open parking in the median ends and a shady, submerged parking pit in the median begins. This is Broad Street at its widest point. At the intersection with Sixth Street, the chamber of commerce building can be found in the median.

Notable buildings

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Haunted Pillar

The Haunted Pillar on Broad Street

The Haunted Pillar is all that remains of a farmer's market that once stood at Fifth and Broad Streets in downtown Augusta, Georgia. The market stood from 1830 until February 7, 1878, when it was destroyed in a tornado. According to local legend an attempt to move, destroy the pillar, or even touch it will result in death.

According to one story, a preacher who was denied the right to preach there, "... threatened that a great wind would destroy the place except for one pillar and that whoever tried to remove this remaining pillar would be struck dead," according to a person interviewed by The Augusta Chronicle

The market was located directly in the middle of Broad Street, and once it was removed Augustans were reluctant to build there again. "Now that the Market House is in ruins, we think it may be opportune to suggest that it never be rebuilt upon the same spot. It was, at best, an unsightly edifice and marred the grand boulevard upon which it was mistakenly located," said an article in The Augusta Chronicle a week after the market was destroyed.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Augusta still haunted by tale of cursed pillar". The Augusta Chronicle.
  3. ↑ The Asylum Eclectica: A Peculiar Pillar

External links

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