Greenwood Plantation

Greenwood Plantation is a large estate outside Thomasville, Georgia, organized around a two-story brick and frame Greek Revival mansion. Thomas P. Jones began the plantation in 1827 and built the house between 1835 and 1844 using bricks fired and timbers cut on the property. English architect John Wind designed it, and its pedimented portico carries hand-carved ornament. In the early 20th century, Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne commissioned Stanford White to add wings, rear additions, bronze gates and sunken gardens. The nominated home-place tract also includes outbuildings, the Jones family cemetery, Pine Tree Boulevard and a stand of virgin longleaf pine. The property was listed for its architecture, its role in southern agriculture from rice and sharecropping to hybrid corn seed development, its quail hunting and conservation programs, and its ownership by the Payne and Whitney families, who were prominent in finance, politics, the arts and philanthropy.