Russell Homeplace Historic District - Russell, GA
N 33° 58.671 W 083° 42.259
17S E 250162 N 3762996
Small district, appearing to be no more than a homestead. Has a Georgia Historic Marker on site.
Waymark Code: WM76BT
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/08/2009
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The Russell House was built in 1912 by Richard Brevard Russell, Sr., B.1861-D.1938, and his wife, Ina Dillard, B.1868-D.1953, who were married June 24, 1891. Fifteen children were born of this marriage. Judge Russell was elected Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia in 1922, and served in this capacity until his death. Mrs. Russell was Georgia's Mother of the year in 1950. In 1954, the late Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr., the oldest son, became the owner of the house and made it his home until his death in 1971.
Russell Memorial Park and Cemetery is located to the South of the house.
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Notable residents of Winder include the Russell family. Richard B. Russell Jr., the longtime chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, was born in Winder in 1897. His father, Richard Russell Sr., a state legislator and Georgia supreme court justice, and Ina Dillard Russell, moved from Athens to Winder in 1894. In 1902 Russell Sr. founded a village named Russell along U.S. 29 on the border of Winder, where he lived for the rest of his life. A collection of Russell Sr.'s papers, known as the "Winder Materials," were found in the Record House and in the wagon shed on the Russell homeplace, and in 1981 the collection was given to the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia.
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