{"nrhp_refnum":"88001828","name":"Penn Place","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Penn Bridge Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Trion","county":"Chattooga County","state":"GA","lat":34.51604904300004,"lon":-85.30582410120823,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-09-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Penn Place is a historic family farmstead of about 275 acres on Penn Bridge Road near Trion, Chattooga County, Georgia, beside the Chattooga River. It has a Plantation Plain main house begun in the early 1850s and eight surviving outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is significant under Criterion A as a farm held by the same founding family from the 1850s to the present, representing westward settlement on former Cherokee lands. Under Criterion C, the main house and outbuildings embody the Plantation Plain style and a self-contained 19th-century farmstead. Changes were made by the family about once a generation, leaving the house much as it looked in the 1850s.","narrative":"Penn Place is a farmstead of about 275 acres along the Chattooga River near Trion, Georgia. Its main house, a two-over-two Plantation Plain frame dwelling, was built in the early 1850s with hand-hewn, pegged framing and hand-made brick chimneys. The family added a kitchen ell, a farm office and a bedroom in 1875, and a sunroom and baths in 1973, yet the house looks much as it did originally. Eight outbuildings survive, including a log smokehouse, an octagonal well house, a dovecote, a servants' house, a carbide gas generator house, a mule barn and a corn crib. The property was bought by William Penn in 1849, passed to his son James in 1850, and has stayed with the family since. Cotton and corn were grown here, first with enslaved labor and later through tenant farming. The farm is also tied to a Civil War river crossing at Penn's Ford in 1864. It was listed for its architecture and its record of continuous family farming.","period_of_significance":"1850-1938","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Plantation Plain","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"In good condition following a 1973 restoration and continued occupation by the same family; the setting remains very rural.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.287735-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/88001828.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001828/de65a7a7c1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001828/de65a7a7c1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jud McCranie","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Penn_Place,_Trion,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jud McCranie</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Penn_Place,_Trion,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207386","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Place","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55316110"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/chattooga-county/penn-place-88001828/"}