Like the sign says. The town claims the “highest percentage of historic buildings” of any city in the state.
51 miles to Atlanta on the Atlantic & West Point Railroad, and 15 minutes past its moment on The Walking Dead. A former mayor would later sell most of business district on eBay for $680k.
The town was renamed from Calico Corner after Lemuel P. Grant, Chief Engineer of the Atlanta & LaGrange Railroad. He also built Atlanta’s Civil War defense measures and bought land that would later become Grant Park and Zoo Atlanta.
Built in the 1840s by freed slave-turned-architect Horace King, the Red Oak Creek Covered bridge is his only town-lattice style bridge left. His son Washington’s bridges can still be seen at Euharlee and Watson Mill, GA.
A beautiful, weathered sign scar. While the town was named after its first postmaster, it’s been on “Queer Eye” too. When not punning it up on TV, the town hosts its Cotton Pickin’ Fairs in May and October.
Hiding behind Main Street, a Coke mural displays a 1980s-era tagline. The mural was briefly painted over in 2013 when Grantville doubled as a Kansas town for filming “Dumb and Dumber To,” but was then painted back.
Harvested and baled cotton sits in the picked fields. Next, it’ll be off to the gin.
Aptly named on a cloudy day amid the pecan trees.
I’m convinced this may be an old Southern Railway depot-turned-house. Town namesake George Gress owned a sawmill, and later donated the Cyclorama painting and zoo animals to the City of Atlanta.