{"nrhp_refnum":"89002037","name":"Tarver Plantation","other_names":["Tarva Plantation"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Tarva Rd./Co. Rt. 122, N of Newton","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newton","county":"Baker County","state":"GA","lat":31.425724642500057,"lon":-84.34228512253425,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-11-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 1,300-acre rural plantation district near Newton in Baker County, southwest Georgia, centered on a one-story Greek Revival plantation house built about 1850 for Henry Andrew Tarver and his wife. The district borders the Baker/Dougherty County line.","why_significant":"The property is significant in agriculture as a large working plantation operated under slavery and then sharecropping, and later used as a hunting preserve and seasonal home. It is significant in architecture for its very intact Greek Revival house with an unusual Greek-cross hallway plan. A reported slave cemetery is counted as a rare and important contributing resource.","narrative":"Tarver Plantation is a 1,300-acre tract of farmland and forest in Baker County, Georgia, anchored by a one-story Greek Revival house built about 1850 for newlyweds Henry Andrew Tarver and Elizabeth Solomon Tarver. In 1850 the plantation covered 3,700 acres and grew corn, cotton, oats, peas, beans and sweet potatoes, worked by enslaved labor until the Civil War and later by sharecroppers. It supplied food to the Confederate government during the war. The house has a full-width portico, side porticoes, transoms and sidelights, and an unusual Greek-cross hallway plan with a large room at each corner. Restoration in the 1940s added a larger kitchen wing and plaster ornament but left the mid-nineteenth-century character intact. Later the land served as a hunting preserve and seasonal home. A reported slave cemetery with one marked grave lies behind the house. The property was listed for its agricultural history and its architecture.","period_of_significance":"c.1850-1897","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a seasonal home with agricultural and forest land; the house was restored in the 1940s, and no historic outbuildings remain.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.561235-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/89002037.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206839","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarver_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38251686"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/baker-county/tarver-plantation-89002037/"}