Rockdale County Jail is a historic building at 967 Milstead Ave. in Conyers, Georgia. It was built in 1897 and served as the jail for Rockdale County, Georgia from then until a new jail was built in 1968. It was entered into the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on August 26, 1982.
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The Conyers Commercial Historic District is a 6 acres in Conyers, Georgia which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The district is roughly bounded by N. Main St., Warehouse St., GA RR, and Center St. It included 39 contributing buildings, a contributing structure and a contributing object.
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The Rockdale County School District is a public school district in Rockdale County, Georgia, United States, based in Conyers. It serves the communities of Conyers and Lakeview Estates. The current superintendent is Mrs. Shirley Chesser, who has been in this position since April 2025.
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The Conyers Residential Historic District is an irregularly-shaped historic district in Conyers, Georgia, the only city in Rockdale County, Georgia, located 24 miles east of Atlanta. The district's development dates from the 1840s.
It has examples of high style architecture, including the Pierce Home Place Greek Revival style, at 988 Milstead Avenue.
Atlanta architect Neel Reid designed the Langford House, at 900 Main Street, which has a mix of Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance styles. It has identical side porches and a front porch with a columned portico.
Atlanta architect Willis Denny designed the Methodist church, Late Gothic Revival, in red brick.
The district has three other churches:
Presbyterian Church, Late Gothic Revival, with granite veneer,
Macedonia Baptist Church, Late Gothic Revival, with granite veneer, and
Baptist Church, has elements of Classical Revival, red brick, which has a columned portico main entrance.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It was deemed significant for its architecture and in the area of community planning and development, the latter "because it reflects how a small railroad town grew to accommodate not only the railroad but also the major roads leading to other nearby towns. It was this irregular growth, rather than a planned grid pattern, which became the core of this district. The district developed in a radiating pattern from the wedge-shaped central business district. Railroad, Main, and Milstead are the three main arteries where development occurred."
In 1990, the district included 120 contributing buildings, one other contributing structure, and 16 non-contributing buildings.
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The Conyers-Rockdale Library System is a public library located in Rockdale County, Georgia. It is home to one branch on Green Street, Conyers, Georgia, the Nancy Guinn Memorial Library.
Conyers-Rockdale Library System is a member of PINES, a program of the Georgia Public Library Service that covers 53 library systems in 143 counties of Georgia. Any resident in a PINES supported library system has access to over 10.6 million books in the system's circulation. The library is also serviced by GALILEO, a program of the University System of Georgia which stands for "GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online." This program offers residents in supported libraries access to over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. It also boasts over 10,000 journal titles in full text.
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Lakeview Estates, also known as Sunrise Lakes by local residents, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Rockdale County, Georgia, United States. The population was 2,660 in 2020.
It now serves as the headquarters for the Rockdale County Historical Society and is known as the Old Jail Museum.