Moore House, West side of Roe Street, south of U.S. Highway 84, Stockton

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This is one of only approximately twenty historic buildings remaining in Stockton. It is significant for architecture as a representative example of a bungalow. Description: This one-story, frame house has a hip roof with cross gables on the main fac;ade and north elevation. It has an asymmetrical four-bay fac;ade with two front doors, a single window and one-set of double windows. It is clad with drop or novelty siding, set on brick piers, and has a composition shingle roof. A screened, hip roof porch supported by simple posts extends across the main fac;ade. Attached to the south elevation is a mobile home. The interior of the house consists of main four rooms and an enclosed rear porch which has been renovated into a kitchen and bathroom. The two south rooms are unheated.

The north rooms share an interior brick chimney, The interior walls are all vertical flushboards. The main front room has an acoustical tile ceiling. All mantels are simple with no stylistic details. The house is in deteriorated condition with many holes in the roof. There is a frame, front gable shed behind the house which is constructed of board and batten. It is set directly on the ground with a raised seam metal roof. History: The house was probably constructed around The original builder and subsequent owners of this house is unknown. It has been vacant since Stockton is located in Lanier County, Georgia which was carved from parts of Lowndes, Berrien, and Clinch Counties in This small, rural community was entirely within Clinch County prior to this.

Although the Savannah, Albany & Gulf Railroad opened in this area in Johnson's Map of Georgia and Alabama and Butts' map of Georgia show no town at this site. Gray's New Map of Georgia published in however, does include Stockton along the railroad line dating the town's formation to sometime between and Nearly all of the remaining historic buildings in the town date from the early to mid-twentieth century and face U.S. Highway 84 and not the railroad suggesting that the automobile was a fundamental source of development for this community. The highway was probably cut through the area in the early twentieth century and more or less parallels the railroad across the state.

The road is not evident on late nineteenth century maps, but is clearly visible on highway maps by The Auto Trails Map of Georgia lists it as state road 38 and approximates Stockton's population to be MOOREHOUSE HABS No. GA - (Page 2)

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Butts, A.G. Butts County Map of the State of Georgia. Macon, Cram, George T. Cram's Road and County Map of Georgia. Daughters of the American Revolution History of Lowndes County, Georgia, Macon, Gibson, Jim Old Times There are Not Forgotten: A Story in Picture and Words of the People of Lanier County, no date. Goodrich Co. Goodrich Road Map of Georgia and Alabama. Gray, Frank A. Gray's New Map of Georgia, Rand McNally & Co. Auto Trails Map of Georgia. Chicago,

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