Williamson-Maley-Turner Farm

Four miles northeast of Jefferson, Georgia, this farm along Parks Creek combines a 1913 Craftsman bungalow with a 60-foot-diameter round barn built the same year by Lee Nelms for dairyman G. G. Williamson. The farmhouse keeps its original weatherboard siding, doors, mantels, plaster walls and wood ceilings. Outbuildings include an ice house, a well house, a milking barn, a corn crib and the foundation of a round hog barn. A later ranch house is the only noncontributing resource. The round barn reflects early twentieth-century experiments in farm efficiency and is one of three known historic round barns in Georgia. Williamson ran a dairy of about thirty Jerseys until 1925. The property was foreclosed in 1936 and then bought by the Maley family, who raised cattle and hogs. In 1964 the barn became a furniture store. The farm was recognized for its architecture and its record as a continuously operating farm from 1913 through 1945.