{"nrhp_refnum":"83000240","name":"Lines, Samuel Shepard, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NE of Sylvania","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sylvania","county":"Screven County","state":"GA","lat":32.937616442000035,"lon":-81.59543903299993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story wooden raised cottage on a house lot of about 142 by 204 feet northeast of Sylvania, Screven County, Georgia, built around 1857-60 by Samuel Shephard Lines.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a good example of a late antebellum Plantation Plain or Low Country style raised cottage, built with locally produced materials. It also retains mid-19th century plantings, housed the first public school in northern Screven County, and hosted Union General Jefferson C. Davis on December 4-5, 1864, during Sherman's March to the Sea.","narrative":"Northeast of Sylvania in Screven County, Georgia, this one-story wooden raised cottage was built around 1857-60 by Samuel Shephard Lines, who moved from coastal Georgia and ran a 1,500-acre self-sufficient plantation from the house. It follows the Plantation Plain or Low Country style, with a broad front porch, a central hall and a raised floor that aided ventilation. Construction relied on local materials, including heart pine, hand-hewn timbers and handmade brick piers and chimneys. The lot keeps cedars and magnolias planted around 1860, fruit trees, a grape arbor, an original kitchen and a dairy shed. A one-room public school once stood in the front yard, where Nannie Brown Lines taught for more than 35 years. In December 1864, Union General Jefferson C. Davis stayed at the house during Sherman's march, while troops foraged nearby. The house has remained in the same family.","period_of_significance":"c. 1857-60","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Plantation Plain or Low Country style raised cottage","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied private residence in good condition, still held by the Lines family; the schoolhouse is gone and the original kitchen was converted to a smokehouse.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.169632-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/83000240.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209441","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Shepard_Lines_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40888761"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/screven-county/lines-samuel-shepard-house-83000240/"}