Mable, Robert, House and Cemetery

Sixteen acres in Mableton, Cobb County, Georgia, hold the farmstead of Robert Mable, a Scottish-born landholder who built a two-story frame house there in 1843. The house follows the Plantation Plain, or I-house, form, with a central hall, four end chimneys, a pedimented porch and heart pine construction joined with wooden pegs. Original mantels, doors and windows survive, and large wooden cross bolts still serve as door locks. A smokehouse, a rebuilt kitchen, a historic well and a family cemetery with Mable's grave and those of nine enslaved people complete the farm layout. Mable gave the railroad a right-of-way in 1881, and the stop that followed was named Mableton for him. Federal troops camped on the land in July 1864, and the site later served as a hospital. The property was recognized for its architecture and its intact rural farm setting, with the house now used for offices, gallery space and art classes.