Photograph of McIntosh Sugarworks — Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

John Houstoun McIntosh Sugarhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Marys, Georgia, was built in the late 1820s by John Houstoun McIntosh. They are a significant example of tabby concrete architecture and represent an industrial component of southeastern plantation agriculture.”
Wikipedia article McIntosh Sugarworks, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Camden County · listed in 1992 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. McIntosh, John Houstoun, Sugarhouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Ga. Spur 40, 6 mi. N of St. Marys, St. Marys, 31558
When was it listed? April 1992
Category. site
Census division. St. Marys
National Register reference number. 92000167 - 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

261 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 261 fires within 5 miles of John Houstoun McIntosh Sugarhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 454 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 95 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
Arson/incendiarism	95
Debris and open burning	53
Misuse of fire by a minor	48
Natural	30
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Smoking	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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
30 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-042
3 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-043
29 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CAMDEN-009
17 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 1992	Natural	10.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Camden 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

5 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
St. Marys Historic District	3.7 miles	1976
St. Marys Historic District	4.3 miles	1976
Orange Hall	5.1 miles	1973
Kingsland Commercial Historic District	6.7 miles	1994
Greyfield	6.8 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000167 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Camden County	All 12 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.