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The community was named for a marble quarry near the town site. [2] The name sometimes is spelled out as "Marble Hill". [1] A post office was established at Marblehill in 1889. [3] The ZIP Code for Marblehill is 30148 [4] The Tate house was started construction in1921 using "Pink Marble" from the surrounding quarries.
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]
By 1880, the Georgia marble industry was suffering. However, the construction of the Marietta and North Georgia Railway allowed the stone to reach new markets, and the Tate family founded the Georgia Marble Company in 1884 in response to growing business and newly interested investors. In 1905, Tate's grandson, Colonel Sam Tate, became ...
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.
Marble Hill, Indiana; Marble Hill, Missouri; Marble Hill, Manhattan, a section of the borough of Manhattan in New York City Marble Hill – 225th Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line), a subway station serving that neighborhood via the 1 train; Marble Hill (Metro-North station), a Metro-North Hudson Line commuter rail station serving ...
Crest is an unincorporated community in Upson County, Georgia, United States. [1] [2] Notes This page was last edited on 23 July 2023, at 23:38 (UTC). ...
Villa/Vila (or its cognates) is part of many Spanish and Portuguese placenames, like Vila Real and Villadiego: a villa/vila is a town with a charter (fuero or foral) of lesser importance than a ciudad/cidade ("city"). When it is associated with a personal name, villa was probably used in the original sense of a country estate rather than a ...
Swannanoa is an Italian Renaissance Revival villa built in 1912 by millionaire and philanthropist James H. Dooley (1841–1922) above Rockfish Gap on the border of northern Nelson County and Augusta County, Virginia, in the US. It is partially based on buildings in the Villa Medici, Rome.