{"nrhp_refnum":"82002493","name":"Wimberly Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jeffersonville Rd., GA 96","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jeffersonville","county":"Twiggs County","state":"GA","lat":32.631965629000064,"lon":-83.3712010461604,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-17","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":"Wimberly Plantation is an antebellum cotton plantation of about 496 acres near Jeffersonville in Twiggs County, Georgia. It centers on Gleesom Hall, a Greek Revival house built about 1845, along with outbuildings, a tenant house and a family cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Gleesom Hall is an excellent example of carpenter Greek Revival architecture in Middle Georgia and one of only two such large houses remaining in Twiggs County. The plantation was one of the earliest and largest cotton plantations in the county, built by Hardy Durham for his daughter and her husband. Its ridge-top siting, its association with Durham, and the potential of three outbuilding sites to yield archaeological data add to its significance.","narrative":"Wimberly Plantation occupies roughly 496 acres along Georgia Highway 96 southwest of Jeffersonville in Twiggs County. Its centerpiece is Gleesom Hall, a two-story wood-framed Greek Revival house built about 1845, with a two-story portico on six square paneled columns. A schoolhouse wing and a kitchen wing are attached at the rear. Nearby stand a brick smokehouse, a fieldstone and wood dairy, a wellhouse, 1930s water and garage structures, a family cemetery and a turn-of-the-century tenant house. Hardy Durham, the county's second largest landholder, built the house as a wedding present for his daughter Caroline and her husband, Dr. Henry Slappey Wimberly, and the plantation grew cotton alongside Durham's own holdings. The house is attributed to a \"Mr. Sessions of Virginia.\" The property was listed for its architecture, agriculture, ridge-top plantation siting, local history and the archaeological potential of known outbuilding sites, including a barn, cook's house and dovecote.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Attributed to \"Mr. Sessions of Virginia\"","architectural_style":"Greek Revival (carpenter Greek Revival)","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"Listed as occupied; the form notes the property is altered, and the surrounding land has reverted largely to scrub pine and hardwood with a few agricultural plots remaining.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.210407-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/82002493.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209790","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107002169"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/twiggs-county/wimberly-plantation-82002493/"}