{"nrhp_refnum":"85000939","name":"Prothro, Nathaniel, Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Old Americus Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richland","county":"Stewart County","state":"GA","lat":32.100738374500054,"lon":-84.64958416253529,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-05-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Agriculture","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A mid-19th-century cotton plantation with a one-and-a-half story wood-framed Greek Revival house and outbuildings, on Old Americus Road about one and a half miles east of Richland, Stewart County, Georgia. The house was built in 1851 by Dan E. Ponder.","why_significant":"The nomination cites significance in agriculture, architecture, historic archaeology, landscape architecture and local history. It was the largest plantation in eastern Stewart County in 1860 and is one of few intact Greek Revival houses with outbuildings in southwest Georgia. It is also tied to the Prothro family, who were active in local civic and financial affairs.","narrative":"Nathaniel Prothro Plantation is a rural farmstead on Old Americus Road, east of Richland in Stewart County, Georgia. Its centerpiece is a one-and-a-half story wood-framed Greek Revival house built in 1851 by Dan E. Ponder of Richland on land the Prothro family acquired in the late 1840s. The house has a pedimented gable porch with four square columns, a central hall plan, and original cast-iron box locks. Surviving outbuildings include a smokehouse, wheat house, cotton gin, stables, well house, and a mule barn. The plantation was the largest in eastern Stewart County in 1860, producing cotton, corn, wheat, sugar cane and vegetables, and later pecans and peanuts. Nathaniel Prothro's family came from South Carolina around 1830, and his son Evan helped bring the railroad to Richland and helped found the Bank of Richland. Its landscaping, including oak and hickory groves and a pecan orchard, also contributes. Possible slave cabin and tenant quarter sites may hold archaeological data.","period_of_significance":"1851-1931","architect_builder":"Dan E. Ponder","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied private residence; the form checks occupied and private residence and notes the house has been altered over time.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.855803-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/85000939.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000939/4aacbae1f0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000939/4aacbae1f0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley; SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nathaniel_Prothro_Plantation;_Richland,_GA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers Langley; 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:Nathaniel_Prothro_Plantation;_Richland,_GA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209501","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107001761"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/stewart-county/prothro-nathaniel-plantation-85000939/"}