Reiser-Zoller Farm

Four miles north of Springfield, Georgia, this 100-acre farmstead was developed by Virgil Reiser, who bought the land in 1874 and built a one-story cottage in 1875. In 1900 a larger two-story plantation-plain house was added in front of it, built by relative Pierce Edwards. The older part has heavy hand-hewn timber framing, while the newer part uses balloon framing and machine-cut lumber. About two dozen wood outbuildings survive, including barns, a syrup house, smokehouse, blacksmith shop, tobacco barn and a circular horse lot. A small store built in 1912 housed a local branch of the Farmer's Educational and Cooperative Union and is considered very rare. A row of trees leads from the highway to the house, and a picket fence surrounds the yard. The property is recognized for its intact picture of a small, diversified family farm in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and for its architecture and landscape.