{"nrhp_refnum":"98000145","name":"Morgan Farm","other_names":["Nathan Morgan Home Place"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"770 Old Dawson Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Smithville","county":"Sumter County","state":"GA","lat":31.99426559300005,"lon":-84.28242262845043,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-02-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Black","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic African-American farmstead in rural Sumter County, Georgia, near Smithville and about seven and a half miles south of Americus. It centers on a ca.1890 central-hall farmhouse with an ell wing, built by Nathan Morgan, along with historic outbuildings, fields and pastures on 117 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is an extremely rare example of an African-American farm bought by a former slave in 1886 and operated by his family for over 100 years. It also has an intact vernacular farmhouse, an unusually large number of historic outbuildings and a preserved landscape of work.","narrative":"Morgan Farm, in rural Sumter County, Georgia, is a working farmstead that has stayed in one African-American family since Nathan Morgan, born a slave, bought 202 acres in 1886. He built a modest central-hall farmhouse with an ell wing around 1890, hauling lumber by wagon from a sawmill. Behind the house stand a smokehouse, cotton barn, mule barn, corn crib, hen house and hog pen, scattered according to function. Beyond them lie a kitchen garden, fruit trees, pastures and fields. The farm has been continuously operated for more than a century and was named a Georgia Centennial Farm. The nomination stresses its rarity: fewer than ten documented African-American owned and operated farms appeared among 38,000 surveyed properties in the state. It is also valued for its largely intact vernacular architecture and its landscape of work, which reflect a small southern farm of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.","period_of_significance":"1886-1947","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular (central hall with ell wing)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The form lists the current function of the house as vacant/not in use, while the fields and outbuildings remain in agricultural use. The farm is still operated by the Morgan family.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.263463-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/98000145.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209530","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Farm_(Sumter_County,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134524979"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/sumter-county/morgan-farm-98000145/"}