No history of this church is to be easily found online, but I would be grateful to learn more. The congregation has probably been around as long as the community.
Leslie Baptist Church, Sumter County
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Category Archives: Leslie GA
Queen Anne Cottage, Leslie
This is a refined but unusually massed Queen Anne cottage. The three gables on the side and the timber framing on the front gable are the most interesting features.
Winged Gable Cottage, Circa 1910, Leslie
One of the most common house types of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Georgia, the winged gable cottage was a utilitarian form that was often expanded as the need dictated. This example has two rear wings, or ells, and is larger than the facade would indicate. The Folk Victorian porch posts are also a common element of such houses.
Queen Anne Cottage, Leslie
This is one of several homes in Leslie that have been dated to 1910. As is often the case, I suspect this to be a “recorded” rather than actual date. Though I don’t have more information, and nothing more than an educated guess, I would expect this more likely to date to the late 1800s. It’s a textbook example of the Queen Anne cottage style so popular in Georgia at that time.
Leslie, Georgia
Leslie was established by J. W. Bailey in 1884. Bailey was a timber operator with financial interests in the area. The post office opened in 1889 and the town was incorporated by the Georgia General Assembly in 1892. According to Ken Krakow, “Bailey first named the town Jeb, the initials of his father, J. E. Bailey, but the post office was erroneously given the name of JOB. Bailey disliked the name “Job” so he circulated a petition to rename the town Leslie for his younger daughter, Leslie Vestell Bailey.”
Leslie is also the home of the Georgia Rural Telephone Museum, which boasts one of the world’s largest collection of antique telephones. It is presently closed to the public, however.
Note: This post replaces “Commerce Street, Leslie”, which was published, with slightly different photographs, on 15 June 2010.
Bailey Avenue, Leslie
Historic Storefronts, Leslie
Leslie native “Lindsey” writes: “The bank was the Leslie branch of Sumter Bank* and Trust, and closed in the late 90s (the other branch is still in Americus). My mom worked there for almost 20 years. The middle store was a drug store when I was a child, then an antique store, while the building at the end was the post office, which was the last to close it’s doors just a few years ago.”
*- The bank was built in 1905.
Update: Our friend Charles Seabrook writes: “Unfortunately, when I visited on May 22, 2024, the old bank and the building next to it had been torn down.“
Service Station, Leslie
John A. Battle writes: This old service station in Leslie was owned by my sister and her husband, Fred (Buddy) Bass and Joanne Battle Bass, and operated as a dry cleaners and barber shop.
