City of Avalon Sports New City Hall

The town of Avalon has a new City Hall.

Until recently, City Council members had been using a former country store at the corner of Old 17 and Avalon Road.

But City Councilman Roger Craven tells WNEG News an Avalon resident offered to sell them a small home on the corner of New 17 and Sisk Road.

“John Stowe and his wife, Leona, owned this property and used it as a rental property behind their house. The new road took their house. She had to move and John died. So, she was trying to remodel it, but vagrants came in and stole the plumbing. She brought things down and they stole it. So, she became disheartened with it. I told her what we had in mind, what the City had in mind, and she was excited about that. So we purchased it from her.”

Craven said Mrs. Stowe had already had a lot of work done on the inside of the home, including new flooring and paint.

“We came in and didn’t do anything structurally, he explained. “We redid the bathroom and made it handicap accessable, we put on a new deck outside. The fireplace is rock from Eastanollee Creek that they had hand picked. John (Stowe) was a master brick layer in Stephens County. So, we just kind of made this Avalon’s place. We hope people will like what we have.”

The new City Hall sits on two acres and Craven says the City is planning to make part of that property available to the citizens of Avalon in the form of a new city park.

“There’s some ideas we have for the rest of it for the residents of Avalon. We have a bar-b-que pit that they built that’s available, and a picnic area. So, we’re probably going to fence it in in time so the public can use it,” Craven said.

At their meeting Monday, Council members voted to hire Thomason Construction of Toccoa to install the new parking lot at a cost of $12,850.