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Tate is an unincorporated community in Pickens County, Georgia, United States. The Georgia Marble Company and Tate Historic District in Tate is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The historic district is centered on GA 53 between GA 5 and Long Swamp Creek.
The Tate House is a historic property east of Tate, Georgia on Georgia State Route 53.Colonel Samuel Tate began construction in 1921 and the mansion was completed in 1926. Designed by Walker and Weeks, architects in the Neo-Classical style, the home is made of pink and white marble (Etowah Marble) supplied by Tate's Georgia Marble Company, and sometimes called the "Pink Palace" or "Pink Marble ...
The Georgia Marble Company and Tate Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1] The district is centered on Georgia State Route 53 between Georgia State Route 5 and Long Swamp Creek, in or near Tate, Georgia. [1] The main office of the Georgia Marble Company was built in 1884 in Mission Revival style. [2]
The Georgia Marble Company was founded in 1884 by Samuel Tate. Tate leased out all the land in Pickens County, Georgia, which contained rich Georgia marble.Pickens County has a vein of marble 5 to 7 miles (8.0 to 11.3 km) long, a half mile wide, and up to 2,000 feet (610 m) deep.
Tate City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Towns County, Georgia, United States. [3] It was founded as a mining and logging community. The community was named after one Mr. Tate, a businessperson in the local lumber industry.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
Tate Gymnasium is a historic building in Tate, Georgia built in 1923 to serve the local high school. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 2002. It is located at 5600 Georgia 53 East.
A History of Georgia (1991). Survey by scholars. Coulter, E. Merton. A Short History of Georgia (1933) Grant, Donald L. The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia 1993; London, Bonta Bullard. (1999) Georgia: The History of an American State Montgomery, Alabama: Clairmont Press ISBN 1-56733-994-8. A middle school textbook.