{"nrhp_refnum":"80001019","name":"Green, Mitchell J., Plantation","other_names":["Cottonham Plantation"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NE of Claxton off U.S. 301 and GA 169","address_restricted":false,"city":"Claxton","county":"Evans County","state":"GA","lat":32.24907876550006,"lon":-81.87388771805048,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 433-acre plantation about eight miles northeast of Claxton, Evans County, Georgia, near U.S. 301 and Georgia 169. It has a farmhouse built in 1878, an 1868 log cabin and a group of farm outbuildings and tenant houses.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is significant for architecture, agriculture and local history. The 1878 house is an excellent example of the Plantation Plain type. The intact outbuildings form a complex typical of a post-Civil War plantation in Southeast Georgia. The land has stayed in the Green family, and Mitchell J. Green served as postmaster of Green, Georgia, from 1882 to 1904.","narrative":"Mitchell J. Green began farming this land near Claxton in the late 1860s after returning from Civil War service. The family first lived in a two-room log cabin built in 1868, then built a two-story Plantation Plain house in 1878. That house has a central stair hall, two rooms on each side, Victorian porch woodwork, and original pine floors, mantels and hardware. Around it stand a commissary, smokehouse, syrup house, log corn cribs, a barn, a windmill, tenant houses and a tobacco barn on about 433 acres. Together they show how a self-sufficient plantation operated after the Civil War, with sheep, corn, oats, some cotton, molasses and cured meat produced for the family and seven tenant families. Green also served as postmaster of the community of Green from 1882 to 1904 and held several county offices. The plantation has stayed in the Green family, and the grouping is notable for how complete and well preserved it remains.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Mitchell J. Green","architectural_style":"Plantation Plain","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and used for agriculture and as a private residence; the land is rent-farmed, a tenant house is occupied, and several outbuildings are used for storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.154402-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001019.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001019/fd887f9bae-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001019/fd887f9bae-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jud McCranie","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mitchell_J._Green_Plantation,_Evans_County,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jud McCranie</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mitchell_J._Green_Plantation,_Evans_County,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207963","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_J._Green_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105675861"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/evans-county/green-mitchell-j-plantation-80001019/"}