Our story
One hundred and thirty-three years of porches.
A timeline
Land, house, quiet, return.
What still stands
The proofs of a working farm.
Outbuilding
The mule barn
Over a hundred years old. Housed the mules that pulled tenant farmers’ plows and hauled pine rosin from the forests.
Residence
A tenant house
Standing in the condition the families would have known — a direct window into how forty acres was farmed.
Civic
The single-room school
Where the children of the farm learned their letters.
Commerce
The commissary
Still standing, in disrepair. Account books survive, with every credit transaction recorded by name.
Forest
The old-growth pines
Roughly twenty long-leaf pines adjacent to the home — likely among the last survivors of the South’s original long-leaf forest.
Built
The Main House
Acquired in 1893 as a 350-square-foot cottage, expanded by 1900, preserved largely unchanged for seventy-five years.
The board
Six neighbors and a bookkeeper.
In partnership with
The 2026 Match
Every gift is doubled by the State Historical Commission until December.