{"nrhp_refnum":"09000271","name":"Parker, Aaron and Margaret, Jr., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4835 Flat Bridge Rd., SW.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stockbridge","county":"Rockdale County","state":"GA","lat":33.63146744800002,"lon":-84.14525253299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-05-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half-story Plantation Plain-type wood-frame house built about 1830 on the east side of Panola Mountain, in what is now Panola Mountain State Conservation Park near Stockbridge, Rockdale County, Georgia. It was built by Aaron Parker, Jr. and his wife Margaret.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be a good and rare example of the Plantation Plain house type, an early Georgia form built mostly from the 1820s to the 1850s. It is also one of the oldest houses in a multi-county area and represents the first wave of white settlement into former Native American lands during the 1820s. Only 179 examples of the type have been identified in the state.","narrative":"Built around 1830 on the east side of Panola Mountain, this one-and-a-half-story Plantation Plain house in Rockdale County, Georgia, is among the oldest houses in the county. It is a wood-frame dwelling on a stone pier foundation with a hall-parlor plan, exterior end chimneys and a historic stone wall. Aaron Parker, Jr., a War of 1812 veteran, and his wife Margaret moved from Clarke County in 1822 and later built the house on Land Lot 230. It became the centerpiece of a large plantation worked by as many as 24 enslaved people by 1860. The house was listed for its architecture, as a good and rare surviving example of an early Georgia house type, and for its link to the first wave of settlement on former Native American lands. After the surrounding land became a golf course in 1991, the house was altered, though its overall form and several historic mantels survive. It is now vacant within a state conservation park.","period_of_significance":"c. 1830","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: Plantation Plain-type house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant/not in use; plans call for removing the former golf course buildings, restoring the house and re-creating a more rural landscape.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.804271-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/09000271.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000271/48f6d21dbd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000271/48f6d21dbd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Tim Farley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aaron_and_Margaret_Parker_Jr._House_front_including_stone_wall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Farley</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:Aaron_and_Margaret_Parker_Jr._House_front_including_stone_wall.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209429","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_and_Margaret_Parker_Jr._House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60748249"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/rockdale-county/parker-aaron-and-margaret-jr-house-09000271/"}