Birdsong Nature Center

Dickey-Birdsong Plantation
Dickey-Komarek House
Birdsong Nature Center is located in Georgia
Birdsong Nature Center
Birdsong Nature Center is located in the United States
Birdsong Nature Center
LocationMeridian Rd., off State Route 93 west of Beachton, Georgia
Coordinates30°42′11″N 84°11′35″W / 30.70306°N 84.19314°W / 30.70306; -84.19314
Area565 acres (229 ha)
Built1912
Architectural styleClassical Revival
NRHP reference No.95000741[1]
Added to NRHPJune 20, 1995

Birdsong Nature Center, formerly the Dickey-Birdsong Plantation, is a 565-acre (229 ha) historic district property. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It includes four contributing buildings, five contributing structures, and a contributing site.[1] It is a wildlife preserve.

It has a 1912 dwelling, the "Dickey-Komarek House", which includes Classical Revival architectural details, and is a frame one-and-a-half-story building built in 1912 by expanding upon a mid-1800s dogtrot house. It has an 1858 barn and outbuildings built in the 1900s.[2]

The property was purchased from the Dickey family in 1938. It became a site of ecological research and fire experimentation.[3]

The property is now the Birdsong Nature Center on Birdsong Road.[4] Birdsong Nature Center was created as a 501c3 corporation in 1986. Its mission is "to foster awareness, understanding, and appreciation of nature and its interrelationships."[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Dickey-Birdsong Plantation / Birdsong Nature Center". National Park Service. Retrieved March 17, 2017. with 18 photos
  3. ^ a b "Birdsong Nature Center: Mission & History".
  4. ^ "Birdsong Nature Center".


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