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Glen Mary Plantation

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Location
  
Sparta, Georgia, US

Area
  
4,047 m²

Phone
  
+1 706-444-8134

NRHP Reference #
  
74000687

Year built
  
1848

Added to NRHP
  
8 May 1974

Address
  
7342 Linton Rd, Sparta, GA 31087, USA

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival architecture

Similar
  
Mary Plantation House, Belle Grove Plantation, Ashland Plantation, Cottage Plantation, Greenwood Plantation

Profiles

Glen Mary Plantation is an historical home located in Hancock County, Georgia, near the town of Sparta. The home was listed on the Georgia Register of Historic Places in 1973, and on the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 1974. As of 2013, the plantation is owned by Preservation America.

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History

Theophilus Jackson Smith built the home on 2,400 acres (970 ha) in 1848 for his bride Mary Gonder. Glen Mary is Scottish for "Mary's Valley," and is a two-story Greek Revival house. Smith was a founding member of the Planters' Club of Hancock County, a pioneer agricultural society. He also served in the Georgia legislature and the Fifteenth Georgia Regiment during the American Civil War. Smith moved to Washington County and advertised Glen Mary for sale in 1859 in The Southern Recorder. Smith sold Glen Mary and 542 acres (219 ha) in 1869 to General Ethan A. Hitchcock and his wife Martha Rind Nicholls Hitchcock. General Hitchcock died at Glen Mary in 1870.

Honors

Scenic America named Glen Mary to its Last Chance Landscapes in 2002–03, designating the plantation as one of top ten most threatened scenic landscapes in the US. Meg McGuire, former president of Scenic America, said Glen Mary was placed on the list because it faced the threat of being destroyed by logging, and it is "typical of historic sites in which the site has been saved but the context is destroyed". The house was also named a National Treasure by Save America's Treasures, the White House Millennium Council's initiative to save America's cultural artifacts. Consultants on the project have included historian William Seale, who wrote the book on the White House for its bicentennial, and architect Charles A. Phillips, chief architect on the restoration of the Miles Brewton House in Charleston, South Carolina. Ian Firth, a faculty member with the University of Georgia College of Environment & Design is the landscape and garden consultant.

References

Glen Mary Plantation Wikipedia