{"nrhp_refnum":"03001365","name":"Turk Family Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"534 Carson Segars Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Maysville","county":"Banks County","state":"GA","lat":34.293660434500055,"lon":-83.54505829029733,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-01-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 13.61-acre family farm on Carson Segars Road, about three miles north of Maysville in Banks County, Georgia. It centers on a one-story gabled ell cottage built c. 1898 by Joseph Columbus Turk, with barns, a store, poultry houses, a well and a pond.","why_significant":"The farm is an intact example of a small, diversified family farm that adapted to changing technology and markets through the 20th century, moving from cotton and corn to eggs, dairying, peppers and forestry. The main house is a good example of a gabled ell cottage that grew through additions. The farm store, in place since 1901, reflects the commercial role of country stores.","narrative":"Turk Family Farm is a 13.61-acre working farm on Carson Segars Road north of Maysville, in Banks County, Georgia. Joseph Columbus Turk bought the original land in 1898 and built a three-room gabled ell cottage, later enlarged with a kitchen, bedroom, front parlor and dining room. Around it stand a livestock barn, a corncrib and wagon shelter, a milling barn, a concrete block store, a broiler house and a hen house, along with a well and a pond. The farm grew cotton and corn at first, then added peppers, forestry, dairying and a commercial egg business in the 1940s as regional farming changed. A country store has operated on the property since 1901. The farm was listed for its record of small-scale agriculture and local commerce, and for the cottage and outbuildings that show how a family farmstead developed from about 1898 to 1959.","period_of_significance":"1898-1959","architect_builder":"Joseph Columbus Turk","architectural_style":"Other/Gabled Ell Cottage","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The farm is still a working family farm, and the main house is still used as a single-family dwelling; the store is no longer listed among current functions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.988931-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/03001365.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206903","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141700551"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/banks-county/turk-family-farm-03001365/"}