{"nrhp_refnum":"04001209","name":"Bowens, Eddie, Farm","other_names":["Seabrook Village Foundation"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"660 Trade Hill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Seabrook","county":"Liberty County","state":"GA","lat":31.744205589000046,"lon":-81.31920241099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-10-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Black"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A nine-acre farmstead at 660 Trade Hill Road in the Seabrook community of Liberty County, Georgia, centered on a frame hall-parlor house built in 1903 by Eddie Bowens, with outbuildings, historic plantings and rice field remnants.","why_significant":"The farm is argued to be an excellent example of an early-to-mid-20th-century African-American farm, tied to Eddie Bowens, a farmer and root practitioner. It is also a good example of a vernacular hall-parlor house that grew through historic additions. It retains a historic agricultural landscape and a rice dam and fields from the coastal rice-growing era.","narrative":"Eddie Bowens built a two-room hall-parlor house in 1903 on land in the Seabrook community of Liberty County, Georgia, and farmed the surrounding nine acres until his death in 1987. Over the following decades he added rooms, a wrap-around porch and an enclosed hallway to the weatherboard house. The farmstead also includes a well, a 1930s doghouse, a rebuilt barn and chicken coop, informal plantings of ornamental, edible and medicinal plants, and the remains of a rice dam and fields that predate 1917. Bowens worked as a farmer, carpenter, oysterman and root medicine practitioner, and served as a church deacon. The property was listed as a representative African-American farmstead of the post-Civil War era and as a good example of a hall-parlor house that evolved over time. Since 1993 it has been part of a heritage museum operated by the Seabrook Village Foundation, with the house used for offices, a gift shop and exhibits.","period_of_significance":"1903-1954","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"OTHER: hall-parlor","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The house has been rehabilitated and serves as the Seabrook Village Foundation's administrative office, gift shop and gallery space within its heritage museum. The grape arbor and fields are kept planted, and the rice fields are overgrown.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.321852-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/04001209.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001209/e1278c5edf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001209/e1278c5edf-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eddie_Bowens_farm,_Liberty_Co_GA_USA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eddie_Bowens_farm,_Liberty_Co_GA_USA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208788","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134383048"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/liberty-county/bowens-eddie-farm-04001209/"}