The Shellman Historic District is a

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

in Shellman in

Randolph County, Georgia Randolph County is a county located in the western portion of the U.S. state of Georgia and is considered part of the Black Belt, historically an area of plantations. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,425, roughly one-third of its ...

which was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1985. It included 163

contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic dist ...

and a contributing site. Per its NRHP nomination, "The Shellman Historic District includes Shellman's intact historic, residential, and commercial resources, several historic churches, a railroad depot, and the city cemetery." It was deemed "historically significant in terms of community planning and development, transportation, architecture, landscape architecture, commerce, and local history." (includes map). With .

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) Victorian architecture in Georgia (U.S. state) Neoclassical architecture in Georgia (U.S. state) National Register of Historic Places in Randolph County, Georgia {{RandolphCountyGA-NRHP-stub