{"nrhp_refnum":"86000460","name":"Carter's Quarters","other_names":["Coosawattee","Rock Spring"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Old US 411 9 mi. S of Chatsworth","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chatsworth","county":"Murray County","state":"GA","lat":34.65757313000006,"lon":-84.71277804994159,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A plantation complex on Old U.S. 411, about nine miles south of Chatsworth, Murray County, Georgia. It has an early 19th-century Plantation Plain house with a 1936 addition and nine historic outbuildings on 116 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination cites architecture (an antebellum Plantation Plain house, many outbuildings, and a 1936 addition by Ivey and Crook), landscape architecture (1930s boxwood garden, cedars, rock garden), and archaeology. It also cites agriculture, commerce, and Indian history through John Martin, treasurer of the Cherokee Nation, and Col. Farish Carter, a major antebellum Georgia planter and entrepreneur.","narrative":"Carter's Quarters is a 116-acre plantation property on Old U.S. 411 south of Chatsworth, Georgia. Its core is an early 19th-century two-story frame Plantation Plain house with original siding, handmade brick chimneys, and hand-carved mantels. A larger 1936 addition by the Atlanta firm Ivey and Crook doubled the living space, and nine historic outbuildings survive, including a springhouse, kitchen, plantation office, and slave cabin. The site was first the home of John Martin, a Cherokee judge and treasurer of the Cherokee Nation, who lived there before Removal. Colonel Farish Carter, one of antebellum Georgia's wealthiest landowners, bought the land in 1833 after the state land lottery, and his son Samuel later managed the farm. Seed corn, cotton, and a noted dairy herd were produced there into the 20th century. The property's boxwood plantings, cedars, and cemetery rock garden add landscape interest, and possible archaeological remains add further value.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"1936: Ivey and Crook, Architects","architectural_style":"Plantation Plain","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"Occupied and in excellent condition; used as a private residence and for agriculture, with 26 acres under cultivation. Still owned by descendants of the Carter family.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.867348-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/86000460.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209049","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/murray-county/carters-quarters-86000460/"}