Brown-Bryson Farm

Brown-Bryson Farm is a 168-acre working farm about a mile southwest of Siloam in Greene County, Georgia. Its centerpiece is a one-and-one-half-story Gothic Revival cottage completed in 1877 for lawyer and cotton farmer Thomas Tillery Brown and his wife, Eliza Ann. Builder Jim Bryson replaced an earlier house of about 1870 that burned in 1873 or 1874, and the chimneys are believed to have survived the fire. The house has lacy bargeboard, sawn brackets, window hoods and heart-pine interiors. Behind it, a smokehouse, tenant houses, barns, a shed, a privy and a well house form a landscape of work, while a picket fence and ornate gate frame an ornamental front yard. Fields and pastures show evidence of historic terracing. The property is significant for its rare rural Gothic Revival design, its intact landscape, and more than a century of continuous farming, from cotton and row crops worked by tenants to cattle and hay. The Brown-Bryson family held it until 1964.