Jefferson Hall

Jefferson Hall is a former cotton plantation about one and a half miles east of Union Point in rural Greene County, Georgia. Its main house, built around 1830 and traditionally credited to Augustine Greene, is a two-story frame building with a central hall, a rear wing and a two-story front portico carried on four brick columns covered in stucco. Fanlighted and sidelighted entrances and Adamesque mantels reflect the Federal style, while the portico shows Early Classical Revival influence. Original pine floors, windows, doors and hand-hewn timber framing survive. A late nineteenth-century tenant house and an early twentieth-century barn recall the shift from slave labor to sharecropping. The property also marks the spot where the Georgia Railroad, the state's first, reached Greene's land in 1838. A village named Jefferson Hall, with stores, an inn and a post office, grew up nearby and later vanished. The house is its only surviving structure and remains in a rural setting.