| District Name: | Downtown Waynesboro |
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| City: | Waynesboro | County: | Wayne |
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| Preparer: | David B. Schneider, private consultant |
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| The Downtown Waynesboro Historic District includes sixteen acres and fifty-one resources constructed between 1881 and 1990. The resources are primarily commercial buildings that form the core business district but include the Wayne County Courthouse (b. 1936), the United States Post Office (b. 1939), and the John Wesley Odom House (b. c.1881). The district illustrates the development of a small east Mississippi county seat which served the surrounding agricultural lands as a commercial and transportation hub, especially after the opening of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad in 1854. |
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