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One of 7 National Register listings published here for Rabun County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Pine Tree Tea Room
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 1659 Lake Rabun Road, Lakemont, 30552
- When was it listed? February 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Tiger
- National Register reference number. 100011455 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
125 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Pine Tree Tea Room between 1992 and 2020, burning about 466 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 21 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 67 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2015-RABUN-001 |
| 24 September 1999 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | ANN GAP |
| 23 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | COMMUNITY LANE |
| 23 September 1999 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | Y CAMP |
| 10 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | GASTON |
| 30 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-HABERSHAM-001 |
| 2 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | SAGA MTN |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pine Tree Tea Room: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Platinum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Habersham County Occurrences | Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Platinum | Occurrence | PLACER | |
| Bright Evans Property | Gold | Past Producer | Vein |
Storms near this property
18 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakemont, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2021 | Flood | Lakemont | $1,000 | Emergency management reported flooding developed along Tiger Creek after 3 to 5 inches of rain fell across southern Rabun County in around 24 hours, with about half of that falling between midnight and sunrise on the 7th. A few roads were inundated and closed, including Old Highway 441, Shady Ln, and Brandon Mill Rd. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakemont | - | County comms reported a tree blown down along Seed Lake and another tree down near Lake Burton. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakemont | - | County comms reported trees were blown down on power lines and blocking the road on Lake Rabun Rd. Another tree was down on Brandon Mill Rd. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Lakemont | - | Emergency manager reported quarter size hail in the Lakemont area. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Lakemont | - | Spotter reported quarter size hail. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakemont | - | County comms reported trees blown down along Highway 15 near Tallulah Gorge. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakemont | - | Spotter reported numerous trees blown down and blocking the road on Long Laurel Ridge Dr. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakemont | - | County comms reported multiple trees and power lines blown down on Connector Rd. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Lakemont | - | Quarter size hail was reported by the Tallulah Falls post office, which is on the Rabun County side of the line. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakemont | - | Trees and power lines were blown down between Lakemont and Tallulah Falls. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakemont | - | Several trees and power lines blown down. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Lakemont | - | Hail was reported near Tallulah Falls. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Lakemont | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Lakemont | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Lakemont | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Lakemont | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Lakemont | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Lakemont | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Tallulah Falls Depot | 3.4 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011455 in Record Group 79. |
| Rabun County | All 7 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.