{"nrhp_refnum":"90000805","name":"Craig, Robert, Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1504 Five Forks Trickum Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lawrenceville","county":"Gwinnett County","state":"GA","lat":33.90090736700006,"lon":-84.01636992684675,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-06-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 23-acre farm district near Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia, centered on a two-story frame Plantation Plain house built around the 1830s, with a family cemetery, an iron fence and the surrounding pasture and woodland.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is one of the last intact antebellum plantation establishments in a rapidly developing county, significant in agriculture and architecture. The house is an excellent example of the Plantation Plain type, and the setting and known outbuilding and slave cabin sites add to its interpretation and archaeological potential.","narrative":"Located along Five Forks Trickum Road near Lawrenceville, this 23-acre property centers on a two-story frame house built in the early 1830s for Robert Craig and his wife Nancy Adair Craig. The house follows the Plantation Plain form: five bays wide, a central hall, two rooms on each side, a full-length front porch, brick end chimneys and a fieldstone foundation. Inside, heart-pine floors, wide pine boards and four modest classical mantels survive. A historic iron fence, a family cemetery with ten marked burials, and surrounding pasture and woodland complete the setting. Craig's farm grew cotton, corn and wheat and raised livestock, and tax records show it reached 2,140 acres and 86 enslaved people in 1861. Only the house and 23 acres remain. The former locations of barns, smokehouses and about 20 slave cabins give the site archaeological potential. It was recognized as a rare surviving antebellum farm in a fast-growing county, and for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1830s-1875","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Plantation Plain (Mid-19th century)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the house has had minimal changes such as updated heating, kitchen, bathrooms and a rear utility room, and the historic outbuildings are gone.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.933983-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/90000805.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000805/490b3e16f7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000805/490b3e16f7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jim Roberts","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Craig_Plantation.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Roberts</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:Robert_Craig_Plantation.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208507","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106999701"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/gwinnett-county/craig-robert-plantation-90000805/"}