McFarland-Render House

Built in 1830 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The McFarland-Render House, also known as Magnolias or The Magnolias Plantation, is a one-and-a-half-story Greek Revival-style plantation home in Newnan, Georgia. The McFarland-Render House was built from 1830 to 1833 by Collin Rodgers, a Troup County architect and craftsman. for Joseph D.”
Wikipedia article McFarland-Render House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Troup County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1830, Greek Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 612 Hines St., LaGrange, 30241
When was it listed? November 1978
Category. building
Census division. LaGrange
When was it built? 1830
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 78001008 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of McFarland-Render House between 1992 and 2016, burning about 442 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 11 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	85
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	6
Smoking	5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-TROUP-003
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1993	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-TROUP-005
26 August 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-TROUP-004

Every fire recorded in Troup County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of McFarland-Render House: 3 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Barium-Barite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Lagrange Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Crosby Prospect	Mica	Prospect
Davis Prospect	Mica	Occurrence
Hart Prospect	Barium-Barite	Prospect
Mat Teague Prospect	Barium-Barite	Prospect

Every working recorded in Troup County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Dixie Cotton Mills and Mill Village Historic District	0.4 miles	2022
H. Frank Jarrell House	0.5 miles	1992
Lagrange Commercial Historic District	0.5 miles	2001
Troup County Courthouse, Annex, and Jail	0.6 miles	1995
Heard-Dallis House	0.9 miles	1975
Bellevue	1.2 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001008 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Troup County	All 35 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.