Jarrell Plantation
Jarrell Plantation | |
Georgia | |
Location | 711 Jarrell Plantation Road, East Juliette, Georgia, U.S. |
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Coordinates | 33°3′7″N 83°43′30″W / 33.05194°N 83.72500°W |
Area | 200 acres (81 ha) |
Built | 1847, 1895, 1920 |
Built by | John Fitz Jarrell, Benjamin Richard "Dick" Jarrell, |
NRHP reference No. | 73000624[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 9, 1973 |
The Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site is a former
History
Before the Civil War, John Jarrell's farm was one of the half-million cotton farms in the South[4] that collectively produced two-thirds of the world's cotton.[5] Like many small planters, John Jarrell benefited from the development of the cotton gin in 1793 by Eli Whitney, which made it practical to cultivate heavily seeded, short-staple cotton even in hilly, inland areas of Georgia.
John Fitz Jarrell built the first permanent structure on the site in 1847. Typical of antebellum cotton plantations, John Jarrell ran the farm with his family and the forced labor of enslaved Africans. By 1860, Jarrell was enslaving 39 people to work his 660-acre (2.7 km2) farm.
After John's death in 1884 one of John's sons, Benjamin Richard "Dick" Jarrell, gave up a teaching career to return home and build his family home in 1895. Although the farm had been processing sugarcane since 1864,[3] Dick Jarrell expanded the industrialization of the farm by adding a mill complex that eventually included a steam-driven sawmill, cotton gin, gristmill, shingle mill, and planer.[2] In 1920, with the labor of his five sons and two nephews, Dick Jarrell completed a second home, fit for his large family. This house is a 5,000-square-foot (460 m2), 1850s-style home built of heart pine.[7]
In 1974, Dick Jarrell's nine surviving adult children donated the plantation site to the State of Georgia for the preservation of the farm and the education of future generations about their heritage. The State of
Images
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site map
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panoramic view
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Visitor's Center
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1847 House
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1895 House
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barn
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Gin House
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floor plan of the mill complex
See also
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g Georgia State Parks – Jarrell Plantation Historic Site
- ^ a b Sugar Cane – Operations – Southern Matters
- ^ Cotton South
- ^ United States and Canada, 1800–1900 A.D. | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- ^ Gunn, Victoria Reeves (1974). Jarrell Plantation: A History. Georgia: Georgia Department of Natural Resources. pp. a35.
- ^ Jarrell 1920 House homepage
External links
- Jarrell Plantation Historic Site - official site