McDaniel-Huie Place

McDaniel-Huie Place is a farmstead on the western edge of Bowdon, Georgia, centered on a one-and-one-half story frame house built over the site of an earlier dog-trot cabin and completed by 1890. The house follows the traditional central-hall plan with Victorian Gothic Revival touches, including triple cross-gabled dormers, shallow pediments over openings and patterned brick chimneys. Around it stand numerous heavy-timber outbuildings dating from roughly 1852 to 1880, among them a smokehouse, mule barn, corn crib, blacksmith shop and carriage house, along with a spring. Together they show the many specialized buildings a mid-nineteenth-century farm needed. J. B. McDaniel, an early settler and prosperous farmer, served in the Georgia House and Senate during the Civil War years. Later owner D. B. Huie helped finance the Farmer's Alliance Store, a farmers' cooperative linked to the Populist movement. The property was listed for its agricultural, architectural and political associations.