Jarrell Plantation

Jarrell Plantation

The Jarrell Plantation is a State Historic Site in Georgia. Located in the red clay hills of the Georgia piedmont, the site stands as one of the best preserved examples of a “middle class" southern plantation. [http://gastateparks.org/info/jarrell/ Georgia State Parks - Jarrell Plantation Historic Site ] ] The Jarrell Plantation's buildings and artifacts all came from one source, the Jarrell family, who farmed the land for over 140 years. [http://www.southernmatters.com/sugarcane/operations-jarrell.htm Sugar Cane - Operations - Southern Matters ] ]

History

Before the Civil War, the Jarrell’s farm was one of the half-million cotton farms in the South [ [http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist/studyguide/chap7.htm Cotton South ] ] that collectively produced two-thirds the world's cotton . [ [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/10/na/ht10na.htm United States and Canada, 1800–1900 A.D. | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art ] ] Like many small planters, the Jarrell family benefited from the development of the cotton gin in 1793 by Eli Whitney, which made it practical to cultivate heavily seeded, short-staple cotton even in hilly, inland areas of Georgia.

John Fitz Jarrell built the first permanent structure on the site in 1847. Typical of antebellum cotton plantations, John Jarrell ran the farm with his family and slave labor. By 1860 John Jarrell operated the convert|660|acre|km2|sing=on farm with the labor of 39 slaves. Although primarily a cotton plantation, the farm also provided food crops and grazing for livestock. During the turbulent decade of the 1860’s, the farm survived a typhoid fever outbreak, General Sherman, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. After the Civil War, John Jarrell continued to farm with the help of former slaves and he increased the farm to nearly convert|1000|acre|km2 . The former-slave labors began leaving the farm in John Jarrell’s final years.

After John’s death in 1884 one of John’s sons, Benjamin Richard “Dick” Jarrell, gave up a teaching career to return home and build his family home in 1895. Although the farm had been processing sugarcane since 1864, Dick Jarrell expanded the industrialization of the farm by adding a mill complex that eventually included a steam-driven sawmill, cotton gin, gristmill, shingle mill, and planer. In 1920, with the labor of his five sons and two nephews, Dick Jarrell completed a second home, fit for his large family. The Jarrell 1920 House [ [http://www.jarrellhouse.com Jarrell 1920 House homepage ] ] is a convert|5000|sqft|m2|sing=on, 1850’s-style home built of heart pine.

In 1974, Dick Jarrell’s nine surviving adult children donated the plantation site to the State of Georgia for the preservation of the farm and the education of future generations about their heritage. The State of Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources operates the now convert|8|acre|m2|sing=on historic site and opens it to the public Tuesday through Sunday.

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