{"nrhp_refnum":"84001163","name":"Jones-Florence Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Off GA 109","address_restricted":false,"city":"Odessadale","county":"Meriwether County","state":"GA","lat":33.02117564200003,"lon":-84.81624308522379,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-03-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An antebellum plantation complex off Georgia 109 on Tiggs Road near Odessadale, Meriwether County, Georgia, with a two-story Plantation Plain house, outbuildings and about 82 acres. The first house dates to the 1830s and the present house was built by William Florence after 1840.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a good, intact example of an antebellum plantation and postbellum farm that grew mainly corn, wheat and vegetables rather than cotton. Its Plantation Plain house with Victorian additions keeps fine interior details and an unusual two-stair upstairs layout. It is also tied to the Jones and Florence families, who reflect the migration into land opened for settlement in 1827.","narrative":"This plantation near Odessadale in Meriwether County centers on a two-story clapboard house in the Plantation Plain style, with a double-tiered front veranda added in 1898. Willis Jones settled the land around 1830 and built a one-and-a-half-story house. After his death in 1840, William Florence bought the property and enlarged that house into the present one. Inside, the house keeps its paneled wainscoting, mantels, pine floors, doors and hardware, and its second floor is split into two sections reached by separate stairs. Surviving outbuildings include a chicken house, smokehouse, covered well, tool shed, three barns and a tenant house. The farm produced mostly corn, wheat and vegetables to sustain the owners and their slaves or tenants. The Florence family owned it until 1981 and farmed it into the 1950s, so few changes occurred. It was recognized for its agricultural, architectural and local history value.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Plantation Plain","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and used for agriculture and as a private residence; the house is described as remarkably intact with very little modernization.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.964054-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/84001163.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001163/6d3cab7678-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001163/6d3cab7678-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Saverivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jones-Florence_Plantation;_Odessadale,_GA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Saverivers</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jones-Florence_Plantation;_Odessadale,_GA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208967","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107001354"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/meriwether-county/jones-florence-plantation-84001163/"}