{"nrhp_refnum":"71000281","name":"Cedar Lane Farm","other_names":["Hilsabeck-Richardson House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Madison off GA 83","address_restricted":false,"city":"Madison","county":"Morgan County","state":"GA","lat":33.658454119000055,"lon":-83.51489015699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-02-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Cedar Lane Farm, also called the Hilsabeck-Richardson House, is a two-story heart pine plantation plain farmhouse with Greek Revival details, off State Route 83 near Madison, Morgan County, Georgia, built about 1839 by Henry Hilsabeck.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a little-altered example of the plantation plain style found in the Georgia piedmont. It typifies the home of the mid-sized farmer owning 200 to 500 acres and fewer than 25 slaves, who is argued to be more representative of the early to mid-19th century South than the large planter. The farm is also noted for its restoration and soil and landscape conservation.","narrative":"Cedar Lane Farm is a heart pine farmhouse near Madison in Morgan County, Georgia, built around 1839 by Henry Hilsabeck. Hilsabeck was the son of a German immigrant who settled in the Moravian region of North Carolina, and he came to Georgia after the Revolution and bought Morgan County land in 1812. The two-story weatherboarded house follows the plantation plain style with Greek Revival details. It has a central hall, interior walls sheathed in wide horizontal boards, and four chimneys of fieldstone topped with brick. It survived without significant alteration, which was unusual for houses of its type. It is described as typical of the home of a mid-sized farmer rather than a large planter. A restoration in the 1960s copied missing doors and moldings instead of substituting old ones. The surrounding acreage was terraced and planted with nursery stock, a spring was dammed to form a lake for irrigation, and the gardens feature plants known in Georgia before 1850.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Henry Hilsabeck","architectural_style":"Plantation plain style with Greek Revival details","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is listed as excellent. The house was restored in the 1960s, and the farm is used for agriculture, commerce (nursery stock) and as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.700481-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/71000281.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209033","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/morgan-county/cedar-lane-farm-71000281/"}