{"nrhp_refnum":"12000411","name":"Fannin-Cooper Farm","other_names":["Twin Creek Farm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"620 & 511 Smith Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hiram","county":"Paulding County","state":"GA","lat":33.91245173500005,"lon":-84.73653582851108,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-07-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic working family farm of 82.2 acres on Smith Road in Hiram, eastern Paulding County, Georgia, with a main farmhouse built in 1887, a double-pen tenant house, barns, a corncrib, a well and farmland. The buildings date from 1882 and 1887 and were built by Christopher Fannin.","why_significant":"The farm is presented as an intact example of a small family farm in the upper Piedmont of Georgia from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. It is significant under Criterion A for agriculture, reflecting farming practices in Paulding County, and under Criterion C for architecture, for its collection of farm buildings. It is described as a Georgia 'landscape of work' where the house, outbuildings, fields and wood lots are arranged for practical farming.","narrative":"Fannin-Cooper Farm is an 82.2-acre working farm on Smith Road in Hiram, in eastern Paulding County, Georgia. Its core is a one-story central-hall farmhouse built in 1887, a board-and-batten double-pen house from 1882 used as a tenant house, two barns, a corncrib, a hand-dug well, pasture, woods and two streams. Christopher Fannin built the early buildings and grew cotton and corn, and raised cattle and hogs. His children continued farming until 1962, when the property was sold to the Cooper family, which still operates it and converted terraced fields to pasture under a 1962 soil and water conservation plan. The farm was listed as a district for its agricultural significance and for the quality of its farm buildings. Together they show how a small family farm in this part of Georgia was laid out and worked between 1882 and 1962, with outbuildings placed close to the house and the land arranged for practical use.","period_of_significance":"1882-1962","architect_builder":"Christopher Fannin (builder of the houses and barns); 1960s alterations designed by Natalie Howard","architectural_style":"Central-hallway plan house; double-pen plan house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still a working cattle and hay farm; the main house and tenant house remain in residential use and the historic barns are used for animal shelter, feeding and storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.009193-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/12000411.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000411/0c94ce81c7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000411/0c94ce81c7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Hiram-farm","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:620_Smith_Front.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Hiram-farm</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:620_Smith_Front.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209231","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannin-Cooper_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108083666"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/paulding-county/fannin-cooper-farm-12000411/"}