Bacon-Fraser House Explained

Bacon-Fraser House
Location:208 E. Court St., Hinesville, Georgia
Coordinates:31.8481°N -81.5936°W
Built:1839
Architecture:Plantation Plain
Added:April 18, 1985
Refnum:85000848

The Bacon-Fraser House is a historic home in Hinesville, Georgia in Liberty County, Georgia, built in 1839, two years after Hinesville was founded. It is a two-story Plantation Plain style house with weatherboard sides. The house is raised and rests on Savannah brick piers. A rear shed room and ell addition was added in 1979, built on foundations that are believed to have been original to rear rooms that were removed in 1923.[1]

During the American Civil War, General Sherman's army occupied the plantation in 1864, pillaged it, and burned the outbuildings.[2]

In 1980, Savannah Landscape Architect Clermont Huger Lee designed a period appropriate planting plan for residence area.[3] Coincidentally, Lee's niece married a descendant of the Bacon-Fraser's.

The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.It is the only building surviving from Hinesville's early settlement period.[1] The house is far back from Court Street but there is a historical marker near the street.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=85000848}} National Register of Historic Places Registration: Bacon-Fraser House ]. National Park Service. February 8, 2017 . Andrea Niles . February 28, 1985 . with
  2. Web site: Georgia Historical Markers Collection Items - Digital Library of Georgia.
  3. Dolder . Ced . Clermont Lee, (1914-2006) Pioneering Savannah Landscape Architect . Magnolia – Publication of the Southern Garden History Society . Spring 2014 . XXVII . 2 . 4 . 16 February 2020.