{"nrhp_refnum":"79000731","name":"Davis-Felton Plantation","other_names":["Mossy Hill"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NW of Henderson on Felton Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Henderson","county":"Houston County","state":"GA","lat":32.38605021200004,"lon":-83.81775925045093,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-11-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Prehistoric","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1,772-acre plantation district (also called Mossy Hill) northwest of Henderson in Houston County, Georgia, containing an Italianate main house, outbuildings, a peach-packing plant, tenant houses and archaeological sites. The main house was built in the 1850s, probably designed by William Mazyck Davis.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the main house is a unique, early and virtually unaltered example of domestic Italianate architecture, which was rare in pre-Civil War Georgia. The plantation has stayed intact since 1864 and has been owned by only two families, with continuous farming that traces the shift from cotton to wheat, peaches and soybeans. It also contains prehistoric and historic archaeological components.","narrative":"Mossy Hill, the Davis-Felton Plantation, is a 1,772-acre farm northwest of Henderson in Houston County, Georgia. Its centerpiece is a two-story Italianate house with a three-story tower, an irregular L-shaped plan, corner pilasters, dentil molding and a curved entrance staircase. William Mazyck Davis moved from South Carolina in the early 1850s to find new cotton land, assembled the property by 1864 and moved his family into the house in 1859. Family tradition says he designed it and that skilled enslaved workers built it from lumber cut on the land. Few Italianate plantation houses were built in pre-Civil War Georgia, and this one is largely unaltered. The Davis family held the land until 1926, when the Felton family bought it. Crops shifted from cotton to wheat and peaches after the boll weevil arrived, and later to soybeans. Tenant houses, a 1930s peach-packing plant and possible prehistoric and slave-era archaeological sites add to its importance.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 and 1900- (specific dates ca. 1855-present)","architect_builder":"probably William Mayzck Davis","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residence and agricultural land; main house in good condition and virtually unaltered, with a manager living on the property.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.298751-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/79000731.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208676","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis-Felton_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105821019"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/houston-county/davis-felton-plantation-79000731/"}