{"nrhp_refnum":"80001225","name":"Turnwold","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SE of Eatonton on Old Phoenix Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Eatonton","county":"Putnam County","state":"GA","lat":33.378683638500064,"lon":-83.27449759302266,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Literature","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Turnwold is a 110-acre former plantation property on Old Phoenix Road in Putnam County, Georgia, northeast of Eatonton. It includes two early-nineteenth-century plantation houses, a detached kitchen, the early-1860s Phoenix Academy, a late-nineteenth-century tenant house, two cemeteries and the site of a printing shop.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Turnwold is significant in education, literature, journalism and historic archaeology. Joseph Addison Turner published The Countryman here, described as the only known newspaper printed on a Southern plantation. Joel Chandler Harris, later creator of the Uncle Remus stories, worked here as a young apprentice, and Phoenix Academy survives as a rare rural antebellum academy.","narrative":"Turnwold is a rural property of about 110 acres in Putnam County, Georgia, where two early-nineteenth-century plantation houses, a detached kitchen, an academy, a tenant house and two family cemeteries survive. The Alexander-Turner House is a two-story braced-frame house of the Plantation Plain type, while the Lane-Turner House is a Federal style building with pilasters across its front. Joseph Addison Turner bought the Alexander place in 1851 and ran a plantation with a hat shop, distillery, tannery and printing office. There he issued The Countryman, the only known newspaper printed on a Southern plantation, from 1862 until 1866. A young Joel Chandler Harris served as an apprentice in the print shop for four years and drew on plantation life for his later Uncle Remus stories. Phoenix Academy, built in the early 1860s in Greek Revival style, is one of few surviving rural antebellum academies in Georgia. Turner's journals and newspaper also point to buried remains of vanished outbuildings.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Plantation Plain variant (Alexander-Turner House); Federal (Lane-Turner House); Greek Revival (Phoenix Academy)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is described as deteriorated overall on the form. The Alexander-Turner House is structurally sound and well-maintained, the Lane-Turner House, Phoenix Academy and kitchen are deteriorated, and the tenant house is in fair condition.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.623896-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001225.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209310","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnwold","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55316116"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/putnam-county/turnwold-80001225/"}