{"nrhp_refnum":"80000979","name":"Sapp Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW of Sardis on GA 24","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sardis","county":"Burke County","state":"GA","lat":33.005968484500045,"lon":-81.814081257018,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-02-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 316.4-acre plantation near Sardis and Waynesboro in Burke County, Georgia, centered on a two-story frame Plantation Plain house built in the 1820s (ca. 1826), with barns, a tenant house and a well.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an exceptional example of early-nineteenth-century architecture, with Federal-style plaster ceiling ornament and a spiral stair that reflect the builder's prosperity. The Sapp family held one of the largest pre-Civil War plantations in Burke County, with about 7,000 acres and 138 enslaved people in 1860. The plantation is also notable for growing corn and raising livestock rather than cotton.","narrative":"Sapp Plantation is a 316.4-acre farm between Waynesboro and Sardis in Burke County, Georgia. Its main house is a two-story frame dwelling in the Plantation Plain style, built in the 1820s with mortise-and-tenon construction, a central hall and a spiral stair. Elaborate plaster ceiling moldings and medallions in the first-floor rooms show Federal-style craftsmanship that is unusual for this house type and reflect the wealth of its builder, William Sapp. Rear additions date to about 1900. Barns, a tenant house and a well remain on the land. Before the Civil War the Sapp family held one of the largest plantations in the county, about 7,000 acres by 1860, worked by 138 enslaved people. The farm centered on Indian corn and livestock rather than cotton, the county's leading crop. Sapp also supported local churches, an academy and Mercer University. The house was spared destruction during the war and is the only Sapp plantation house to survive.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":"William Sapp (believed builder)","architectural_style":"Plantation Plain, with Federal-style craftsmanship","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in good condition; the land is under cultivation and the house retains its original style with no major alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.827312-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80000979.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000979/e51c7f71eb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000979/e51c7f71eb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Billie F Pommier","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sapp_Plantation.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Billie F Pommier</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:Sapp_Plantation.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207179","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapp_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17022114"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/burke-county/sapp-plantation-80000979/"}