Burge Farm

Burge Farm, also called Burge Plantation, is a 603-acre rural district near Newborn, Georgia, where farming has continued for nearly two centuries. It holds three main agricultural complexes, tenant houses, open fields, an orchard and a lake. The oldest building is the Burge-Bolton House, a plain one-story central-hall dwelling from about 1830. Around 1920 it was moved across Highway 142 to make room for a larger house, and the Bolton family later added rear wings and a full-width classical porch with Doric columns. The new plantation house, built on the original family site, was designed by architect Merritt J. Morehouse after Homewood, the Baltimore house of Charles Carroll, Jr. It has a five-part Palladian plan and a tetrastyle portico. Servants' cottages, barns, an overseer's cottage, a pump house and formal gardens complete the working complex. A cemetery near the tenant houses honors enslaved people and freedpeople buried on the property. Of the district's 34 resources, 27 contribute to its historic character.