Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
From the record
“The Fort Hollingsworth-White House is a well-preserved example of an early frontier fort built near Alto, Georgia in the late 18th century. The fort was built around 1793 by Jacob Hollingsworth on newly opened lands resulting from treaties with the Cherokee Nation, and was meant to protect the settlers in the area.”
Wikipedia article Fort Hollingsworth-White House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Banks County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.98000973- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
172 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Fort Hollingsworth-White House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 404 acres in total. 5 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
99
Arson/incendiarism
21
Equipment and vehicle use
17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
13
Smoking
6
Natural
5
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Fort Hollingsworth-White House: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hollingsworth, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash 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.
The Banks County Emergency Management Director reported that very heavy rain from thunderstorms caused Mountain Creek to rapidly exceed its banks and wash out an earthen bridge on Dalton Road just south of Hollingsworth. As a result, the road was closed. Little Nails Creek in the same area also exceeded its banks and washed out a portion of Moss Mill Road, a gravel road.
Emergency Manager reported Moss Mill Road near Highway 441 and Old Highway 441 was inundated with water due to Little Nails Creek overflowing its banks. Radar estimates indicate that 2.5 to 3 inches of rainfall occurred over the area.
The Banks County 911 Center reported that penny-sized hail was observed at the Fire Station on Damascus Road northwest of Hollingsworth. Radar data suggests that similar hail likely fell with this thunderstorm further southwest to east of Lula.
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
6 within 8 miles
Other 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.
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.
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