514 Lindsey Lane (House), Americus

Source document Quoted word for word from HABS GA,131-AMER,11-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Example of Cottage-style house typical of the area ca. Description: This gabled ell house has a front porch across the front; the ell is at the rear but has an addition obscuring it across the entire rear. It is raised on block piers, with one brick pier remaining. The wood siding has a half straight profile. the porch is enclosed halfway up. The only remaining window is the roof is metal standing seam. History: This house and lot under the old numbering system of the City of Americus was 103 Lindsey Alley. This house and lot was bought sold, or conveyed over the years until it was deeded to Annie Cannon. This house will be demolished persuant to the Jefferson/Ashby Urban Redevelopment Project.

This house was located in the McCoy Hill neighborhood, encompassing Academy, McCoy, Poplar, Winn, Jefferson, and Ashby streets. It was originally the residential property of a prominent antebellum attorney and Confederate general, Henry Kent McCay. The modem misspelling results from the name's pronunciation not matching its own spelling. During the Reconstruction Era in the the site was used for public executions even as freedmen were establishing a black residential neighborhood in the immediate vicinity. After the destruction of the old McCay home in the early the site became the location of the city's first public school for blacks, McCoy Hill School, built in With the earlier addition of Mt.

Olive Baptist Church in the neighborhood boasted the residences of many of the black community's professional class. For example, two of the city's preeminent black educators, Professors George Philips and Alfred S. Staley, were homeowners there. For almost 130 years, the McCoy Hill neighborhood has nurtured generations of Americus' black citizenry.

Source document Quoted word for word from HABS GA,131-AMER,11-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Alan Anderson, Sumter Historic Preservation Society Historian and Archivist Meda Krenson, Architect Desi L. Wynter, Acquisition and Relocation Coordinator 514 LINDSEY LANE (HOUSE) HABS No. GA-2288 (PAGE 2) I 4-D '' POfl.C.\-\ N rO en ~ I ~ r 11 r 11 <o' {9 ~ d' 4 NOVEMBER TIM LITTLEFIELD