{"nrhp_refnum":"82002491","name":"Chapman, John, Plantation","other_names":["Hollywood"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SE of Jeffersonville on GA 96","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jeffersonville","county":"Twiggs County","state":"GA","lat":32.66584224750005,"lon":-83.30505128355573,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-08-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture","Social History","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 846-acre plantation known as Hollywood, just east of Jeffersonville in Twiggs County, Georgia, centered on a two-story Greek Revival house built about 1850, with domestic and agricultural outbuildings, three tenant houses and archaeological sites.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the plantation shows the development of a Georgia plantation from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s, and that Hollywood is a fine intact carpenter Greek Revival house with outstanding plaster work. It is also significant for its informal landscaping with native trees, its role as a major cotton plantation later converted to dairy and timber, its association with prominent local owners, and its archaeological potential.","narrative":"Hollywood, the main house of the John Chapman Plantation, is a two-story Greek Revival residence on a rise east of Jeffersonville, Georgia. Built about 1850 and attributed to a \"Mr. Sessions of Virginia,\" it has a six-column Doric portico, a central stairhall plan and plaster ceiling medallions and cornices of acanthus and grape leaves attributed to Savannah craftsman Francis McDermott. The surrounding 846 acres, about half of the original 2,000, hold a detached kitchen, water tower, doctor's office, barns, dairy buildings and three ca. 1880 tenant houses. The grounds include native trees said to have been dug from the Ocmulgee swamps for John Chapman. The property was a major cotton plantation, producing 136 bales in 1860, before shifting to dairy farming and timber around 1930. Later owners included physician Mark H. O'Daniel and timberman William B. Gettys. The collection of buildings, landscape and archaeological sites documents plantation life across about a century.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 and 1900- (specific date ca. 1850)","architect_builder":"\"Mr. Sessions of Virginia\" (believed architect); plaster work attributed to Savannah craftsman Francis McDermott","architectural_style":"Greek Revival (carpenter Greek Revival)","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"Occupied and in agricultural use (cattle grazing, hay, limited tree farming, dairy history); condition rated good and altered; the tenant houses and two ca. 1880 barns are deteriorated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.586223-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/82002491.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002491/ccd2b6619b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002491/ccd2b6619b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jud McCranie","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Chapman_Plantation.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:John_Chapman_Plantation.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209784","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106999551"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/twiggs-county/chapman-john-plantation-82002491/"}