HARTWELL, Ga. — Though the movies no longer fill the Judy Theater’s screen, the theater building still stands in downtown Hartwell.
For how much longer depends on whether national drugstore chain CVS, which operates more than 5,400 stores in 37 states, decides to build on the town square, just across from the county courthouse. The company’s plans, however, weren’t met with the same feeling by the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit group based in Atlanta that works to protect historic places in the state.
This month, the group released its first ever “Places in Peril” list, 10 places around Georgia that are most in danger of being destroyed.
Downtown Hartwell was one of the 10 places in peril, along with the Terrell County Courthouse in Dawson and the Auburn Avenue Commercial District in Atlanta.
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