{"nrhp_refnum":"82000145","name":"Davis, Josiah, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Canoochee on GA 192","address_restricted":false,"city":"Canoochee","county":"Emanuel County","state":"GA","lat":32.628352360000065,"lon":-82.16353514666338,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-10-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-room-deep, two-story Plantation Plain farmhouse built about 1869 on a 321-acre farm south of Canoochee on Georgia Highway 192, Emanuel County, Georgia, with surviving farm outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a good example of Plantation Plain architecture carried into the Reconstruction Era, when few houses of this type are documented. It is also significant in local history as the home of Civil War veteran and farmer Josiah Davis. It is significant in agriculture as an intact Reconstruction-era farm that kept its original acreage and worked with sharecroppers.","narrative":"Built around 1869, this farmhouse south of Canoochee in Emanuel County, Georgia, follows the Plantation Plain form: two rooms down and two up, a central hall, a shed porch across the front, and a detached kitchen that now forms a rear ell. Walls are wide hand-planed boards, floors and ceilings are heart pine, and carved mantels and marbelized bedroom doors survive. Fireplaces remain the original heating. The house was built by Josiah Davis, a Civil War veteran who farmed corn and cotton on about 318 acres with sharecroppers, many of them former slaves. The form argues the house shows the Plantation Plain style continuing into Reconstruction, an era when little building is often assumed. The farm also keeps its original acreage, a barn, a syrup mill and at least three tenant houses. Together they illustrate a small farm established as large plantations gave way to a new economic order. Few such farms survive intact, which supports its listing for architecture, local history and agriculture.","period_of_significance":"C. 1869","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Plantation Plain","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied private residence; farmland and several outbuildings survive; the house is described as little changed from its construction.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.409797-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/82000145.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82000145/896b1b8af1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82000145/896b1b8af1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jud McCranie","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Josiah_Davis_House,_Emanuel_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:Josiah_Davis_House,_Emanuel_County,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207947","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Davis_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30622114"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/emanuel-county/davis-josiah-house-82000145/"}