Statements

Mission:  Hometown Warrenton, Inc. promotes community development through downtown revitalization, historic preservation, tourism, and education.
Vision:  Our vision is to help create a unique and vital downtown that enriches the business community, embraces history, celebrates the arts, and promotes quality events to instill a 'sense of place' in our community.   View our Work Plan

What is Main Street?

The Main Street Movement
Collectively, the Main Street movement is the leading voice for preservation-based economic development and community revitalization across the country. 

A Grassroots Network
Made up of small towns, mid-sized communities, and urban commercial districts, the thousands of organizations, individuals, volunteers, and local leaders that make up Main Street America represent the broad diversity that makes this country so unique. 

The Approach
The Main Street Approach is most effective in places where community residents have a strong emotional, social, and civic connection and are motivated to get involved and make a difference. This approach works where existing assets – such as older and historic buildings and local independent businesses – can be leveraged. It encourages communities to take steps to enact long term change, while also implementing short term, inexpensive and placed-based activities that attract people to the commercial core and create a sense of enthusiasm and momentum about their community. 

Main Street Fundamentals

• The Main Street Approach is centered around Transformation Strategies. A Transformation Strategy articulates a focused, deliberate path to revitalizing or strengthening a downtown or commercial district’s economy.
• A program’s work on Transformation Strategies should be organized around the Four Points: Economic Vitality, Design, Promotion, and Organization.
• A revitalization program’s work – and its Transformation Strategies – need to be informed by a solid understanding of local and regional market data, and sustained and inclusive community engagement.

Connect with us...

Downtown Events

Work Plan

Historic Places

Learn about National Main Street, their approach, the impact and the network

Sustainable Development is that which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own while maintaining the historical integrity of the Downtown.

The Georgia Main Street Program
The Georgia Main Street Program began in 1980 as one of the original pilot state coordinating programs of the National Main Street Initiative launched by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The program launched with five local communities and has grown to serve 100+ communities statewide. Georgia Main Streets represent some of the strongest central business districts in the state and in the Southeast. Since it started, the designated community programs have been instrumental in leading the state in historic preservation, small business development, expansion of the state’s employment base, leveraging private investment, increasing tourism and providing a positive road map for public-private partnerships. Housed in the Office of Downtown Development at the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA), Main Street is a signature program for community development and revitalization in Georgia’s historic downtowns.​

FAST FACTS

• 105 Number of Georgia Main Street Cities
• 930 Number of Businesses Opening or Expanding in 2021
• 3,744 Number of Net New Jobs Created in 2021
• 1,643 Number of Building Rehab Projects Completed in 2021
• $ 1,235,652,207 Billion Total Amount of Private and Public Investment made in Georgia's Downtowns in 2021

Projects

Peace Poles
The installments of Peace Poles has been completed at the Depot Welcome Center. We would love to plant more...all over town! The Warrenton Garden Club & Hometown Warrenton, Inc. invite you to participate by creating an inspirational "monument" for peace.
Please contact us for more info or CLICK HERE.

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Executive Board

Beth Jowers

chairman

First State Bank

Pam Langford

Vice-chair

Divine Designs

Betty English

Vice-Chair

Warren Co. Ext.

Linda Phillips

Treasurer

Six Acres Farm

Erica Dawson

Secretary

ACT

​Board at Large

Paige Kelley - Kelley Business Printers
Kathy Banks - Asama Coldwater Manufacturing
Jane Edmunds - Warrenton Garden Club
​Lisa Rockwell - The Jewell Box
​Tracey Turner - Warrenton Finance Company
Steven Thorpe - Georgia Pacific Warrenton
​Dr. Raschondrius Burnett - Warren County Schools
David Kelly - Georgia Power
​Dr. Chris Harris - Warren County Schools

Interested in serving on the Hometown Warrenton Board of Directors?
Give us an email at Info@HometownWarrenton.org.

Committee Coordinators

Louise Hadden

Committee leader

Events, Networking & Education 
​Design, Preservation & Organization 

Sheri Frantz

Committee Leader

Benefits,
Members & Development
​Marketing, ​Social Media
& Tourism