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The North Villa Rica Commercial Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 31, 2002. It includes eighteen buildings spread out over several blocks. The buildings were built in the early commercial style and some of them date back to 1875. This area houses the City of Villa Rica Police Department along with several antique stores, restaurants, and other commercial businesses. The boundary is basically North Avenue, East Gordon St, West Church St, and the Southern Railroad line.
The district is also referred to as Hixtown, the original name of Villa Rica. However, this can cause confusion since this is not where Hixtown was originally located. Hixtown was first settled about a mile and a half up Georgia State Route 61 near where Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica currently sits.[1] When the railroad came through in 1882, many of the buildings from Hixtown were moved to what is now the North Villa Rica Commercial Historic District and thus the reference to Hixtown.
[edit] References
- ^ Mary Talley Anderson (1976), The History of Villa Rica (City of Gold), Privately Published.
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