{"nrhp_refnum":"74000703","name":"Colonsay Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"ENE of Crawfordville off SR 908","address_restricted":false,"city":"Crawfordville","county":"Taliaferro County","state":"GA","lat":33.599434992000056,"lon":-82.697225768602,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-11-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story unpainted weatherboard plantation house built c.1789 by Marmaduke Mendenhall on about 540 acres in the fork of Little River and Williams Creek, in Taliaferro County near Crawfordsville, Georgia (originally Wilkes County).","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the only surviving identifiable house built by a Quaker in Georgia and one of the state's oldest residences. It hosted Quaker meetings in the late 1780s and early 1790s, documented in the journals of two travelling Friends ministers. It has also remained a working farm and retains two archaeological sites.","narrative":"Colonsay Plantation, near Crawfordsville in Taliaferro County, Georgia, is a two-story pine farmhouse built around 1789 by Marmaduke Mendenhall, a Quaker who left North Carolina and received land on the Ceded Lands in the fork of Little River and Williams Creek. The weatherboard exterior has never been painted, and the original room has dark, oiled virgin pine panelling with a small circular stair beside the fireplace. Quaker meetings were held here in the late 1780s and early 1790s, according to the journals of two travelling ministers. Charles R. Carter added a wing around 1820, and later owners kept the land as a working farm, growing cotton and corn and later raising cattle and sheep. The property was named Colonsay in 1923. It is regarded as the only identifiable Quaker-built house in Georgia, and two archaeological sites on the grounds include Late Mississippi Period pottery.","period_of_significance":"c.1789 (18th and 19th centuries)","architect_builder":"Marmaduke Mendenhall (builder)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition, altered, on its original site, and used as a private residence and for agriculture; preserved nearly intact with 540 acres.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.204994-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/74000703.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209566","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonsay_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5148476"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/taliaferro-county/colonsay-plantation-74000703/"}