{"nrhp_refnum":"04001188","name":"Teel-Crawford-Gaston Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2154 GA 30 W","address_restricted":false,"city":"Americus","county":"Sumter County","state":"GA","lat":32.14927230700005,"lon":-84.39326596967868,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-10-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Landscape Architecture","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An approximately 850-acre farm district on Georgia Highway 30 West near Americus in Sumter County, Georgia. It centers on a Greek Revival main house built about 1836-1840 by John Teel, with outbuildings, fields, a brickyard site and a slave cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is significant for agriculture because it keeps an intact complex showing both the plantation system and later tenant farming. It is also significant for its Greek Revival Georgian-plan house, its historic farm landscape of ornamental yard and working area, and Black ethnic heritage through the brickyard, house and slave cemetery tied to enslaved people who built and worked the farm.","narrative":"Near Americus in Sumter County, Georgia, this roughly 850-acre farm grew from a plantation founded by John Teel, who bought the land in 1836 and built a one-story Greek Revival house by about 1840. Enslaved people felled the timber and burned the brick on site. The Crawford family bought the property in 1852 and, after the Civil War, shifted it from slave labor to tenant farming. Robert B. Gaston bought it in 1918 and built most of the surviving outbuildings, including barns, a chicken house, a pump house and a tenant cook's house. The house has a center-hall plan, four fireplaces, molded mantels, and a transom and sidelights at the entrance. Formal plantings in the front yard are set apart from the working landscape. The unmarked slave cemetery and the brickyard site are rare survivals. The farm is still worked by the Gaston family, and its period of significance runs to 1954.","period_of_significance":"c.1836-1840 to 1954","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still operated as a farm, with fields planted in cotton, peanuts and corn. The house and property are seasonally let to hunters. The outbuildings are in poor condition but retain high historic integrity, and some have collapsed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.745974-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/04001188.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209536","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teel%E2%80%93Crawford%E2%80%93Gaston_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107001923"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/sumter-county/teel-crawford-gaston-plantation-04001188/"}