{"nrhp_refnum":"90001408","name":"Holder Plantation","other_names":["Plantation at Jefferson"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of Possum Creek Rd. and US 129","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jefferson","county":"Jackson County","state":"GA","lat":34.14942992400006,"lon":-83.61926471415512,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-09-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural farm district of about 27.5 acres, 3.5 miles northwest of Jefferson in Jackson County, Georgia. It contains an I-house built c. 1867 onto an 1850s core, several historic outbuildings, pasture and woodland from a former cotton plantation.","why_significant":"The c. 1867 I-house is a good example of a vernacular house type that grew from an earlier 1850s two-room structure, with restrained detailing typical of Reconstruction. The commissary, sweet potato house and granary are now-rare functional farm buildings typical of late 19th-century northeast Georgia. Together they form a historic farm setting representative of Jackson County.","narrative":"Holder Plantation is a surviving farm complex about three and a half miles northwest of Jefferson, Georgia. Its centerpiece is a two-story, frame I-house built around 1867 as an addition to an 1850s two-room structure with a central chimney. The house has a five-bay front, square columns, two-level porches, and an entrance with transom and sidelights. Inside, heart pine floors, plain mantels, wainscoting and original moldings remain. Behind the house stand historic outbuildings, including a commissary for workers, a sweet potato house and a two-story granary, all frame buildings with tin gable roofs on stone piers. Wagon sheds, wells, a stone wall, a rock dam from a former cotton gin and a metal water tower also survive. The property was listed for architecture because the house shows how a modest antebellum dwelling was expanded, and because the outbuildings represent functional farm building types that are now rare. Thomas R. Holder bought 586 acres in 1863 and held 1,589 acres by 1873.","period_of_significance":"1850s, c. 1867","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: I-house","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling and for agricultural purposes; the front porch was reconstructed from an early 20th-century photograph, and a swimming pool and two modern barns are noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.885505-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/90001408.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208696","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holder_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65068386"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/jackson-county/holder-plantation-90001408/"}