513 Lindsey Lane (House), Americus

Source document Quoted word for word from HABS GA,131-AMER,10-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Example of Cottage-style house typical of the area ca. Description: This is a raised gabled ell cottage, but the original piers are gone. The front porch is ell-shaped. The wood siding remains. The section toward the street has 4/4 windows and a corrugated metal roof. The section paralled to the street has 6/6 windows and a standing seam roof. History: 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 modern 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,10-. 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 513 LINDSEY LANE (HOUSE) HABS No. GA-2302 (PAGE 2) I '' 8" Q.. , ~ - - 'V f-1 I ... :l ti PORtH "" ~ - v- ~ '9 - -1 ( '() -en - I - 10 I Ir ~ , 1~ 1 l 4 NOVEMBER TIM LITTLEFIELD