{"nrhp_refnum":"97000559","name":"Early Hill Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Lickskillet Rd. 0.5 NE of US 278","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Greene County","state":"GA","lat":33.587874492000054,"lon":-83.21643551575055,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-06-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large two-and-one-half story frame plantation house with Greek Revival details, on a ridge crest off Lickskillet Road near Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. The nominated 23 acres also include a well house and a rock-lined dairy pit; the house dates from about 1820, with major alterations in the 1840s.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be an intact antebellum plantation house with a Georgian-type central-hall plan and Greek Revival details, including an unusual free-standing stair. It is also tied to Joel Early, Jr., who in 1830 sent thirty of his slaves to Liberia through the American Colonization Society. The nomination calls it the only known Georgia plantation where the owner took part in this effort and the house survives.","narrative":"Early Hill Plantation is a large frame house on a ridge crest near Greensboro, Georgia, begun around 1820 and reworked in the 1840s. It combines a Georgian central-hall plan with Greek Revival details, including six-over-six windows, a transomed front door and an unusual staircase whose rear landings are not attached to the wall. A well house, a rock-lined dairy pit and traces of old lanes and farm roads survive on the 23 acres. The place matters for its link to Joel Early, Jr., who owned about 2,200 acres and 60 slaves by 1850. In 1827 he began corresponding with the American Colonization Society, and in 1830 he sent thirty of his slaves to Liberia. This accounted for nearly a third of Georgia-based slaves sent there between 1820 and 1833. The plantation left private hands in 1890, after the Warner family of New York, and was later subdivided. The house survives as the best remaining evidence of Early's story and of antebellum building in the county.","period_of_significance":"1820s-1890","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Early Classical Revival; Greek Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Private residence, also used as a hotel; the main house is described as well maintained, with some later changes such as a rear kitchen addition and a front terrace.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.259115-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/97000559.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000559/314e9c4046-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000559/314e9c4046-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Cynthia Jennings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Early_Hill_Plantation.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cynthia Jennings</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:Early_Hill_Plantation.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208475","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107000227"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/greene-county/early-hill-plantation-97000559/"}