{"nrhp_refnum":"12000382","name":"McArthur, Willie T., Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"165 McArthur Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ailey","county":"Montgomery County","state":"GA","lat":32.20008617000005,"lon":-82.50270729110638,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-07-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture","Landscape Architecture","Black"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 175-acre farm complex in rural Montgomery County near Ailey, Georgia, with a 1900 Queen Anne-style main house, domestic and agricultural outbuildings, tenant houses, fields and pecan orchards. The farm was established by Willie T. McArthur, who bought it in 1893.","why_significant":"The nomination finds it significant at the state level in agriculture, architecture, landscape architecture and black ethnic heritage. It preserves a largely intact main house, outbuilding clusters, tenant houses and a working landscape typical of Georgia farms in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It also illustrates the tenant farming system that relied on African-American labor.","narrative":"Located in the McGregor community of Montgomery County, Georgia, this 175-acre farm was bought in 1893 by Willie T. McArthur and his uncle, Dr. Thomas Lawrence Calhoun. McArthur built a one-story Queen Anne-style house in 1900, with a wraparound porch, turned posts and spindle work, and a central-hall plan. An earlier double-pen house from 1893 became its kitchen and dining room. Around it are a picket fence and domestic outbuildings including a dairy, smokehouse, playhouse and windmill. Farther south are a barn, corn crib, garage, grain elevator, scales building, corner store and three tenant houses. Cotton, tobacco, naval stores, corn, pecans and livestock were all part of farm life. The property is recognized for showing how Georgia farms operated through tenant labor, including African-American tenants such as Joe Bell, and for its intact buildings and working landscape of fields, orchards and woodlots. The McArthur family still farms the land, and the period of significance runs from 1893 to 1962.","period_of_significance":"1893-1962","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne; Other: double-pen house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The McArthur family continues to operate the farm, and the main house remains a residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.185255-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/12000382.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000382/563ddebe39-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000382/563ddebe39-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jud McCranie","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Willie_T._McArthur_Farm,_Montgomery_County,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">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:Willie_T._McArthur_Farm,_Montgomery_County,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209021","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_T._McArthur_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17066365"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/montgomery-county/mcarthur-willie-t-farm-12000382/"}