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George Webb Farm, Barn, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter

George Webb Farm, Barn, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumter County, GA. Surveyed as HABS GA-37-B, with a 282-word written history.

From the record

“The George Webb Farm is located on approximately eight hundred acres of farmland associated with two other farmhouses and the Webb family.”

Written record, HABS GA-37-B survey. Machine-read text.

Surveyed by the federal HABS program as HABS GA-37-B · the record runs 282 words · one of 64 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Significance

183 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HABS GA-37-B. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

The George Webb Farm is located on approximately eight hundred acres of farmland associated with two other farmhouses and the Webb family. This house is part of a National Register listed district, the Webb Family Farm, which consists of three historic farmhouses with their associated outbuildings and one non-historic house. The barn associated with the George Webb Farm is significant as an agricultural structure associated with a farm operated continuously by the same family since the early Description: When the property was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in a collection of historic wood framed outbuildings including a mule barn, smoke house, wash house, chicken house, a carriage house and a dilapidated tenant cottage were included in the nomination.

However, these buildings were no longer extant in The remaining historic buildings include the house and a small structure currently used as a barn. This structure is a rectangular wood frame structure with a gabled roof and possesses a porch on all four sides. It has been used as a commissary, wash house and storage facility. History: The structure was constructed in

In context

Sumter, Georgia The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Sumter County, Georgia 48 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report as the survey filed it.

Also surveyed in Sumter

21 records

The federal surveyors worked through Sumter building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Sumter CrossroadsHABS GA-23831,246 words
Big StoreHABS GA-23841,028 words
George Webb FarmHABS GA-37-A947 words
Rodgers-Buchanan FarmHABS GA-40-A609 words
Cotton GinHABS GA-2387402 words
William Webb FarmHABS GA-20-A401 words
Filling StationHABS GA-2386391 words
Sumter MerchantileHABS GA-2385386 words
Emory Webb FarmHABS GA-39-A379 words
Seed HouseHABS GA-12333 words
Rodgers-Buchanan FarmHABS GA-40-B287 words
Rodgers-Buchanan FarmHABS GA-40-C281 words
William Webb FarmHABS GA-20-D272 words
Railey-HallHABS GA-15-D267 words
William Webb FarmHABS GA-20-E267 words
Railey-HallHABS GA-15-C266 words
William Webb FarmHABS GA-20-B265 words
William Webb FarmHABS GA-20-C264 words
Railey-HallHABS GA-15-B263 words
Rodgers-Buchanan FarmHABS GA-40-D229 words
Emory Webb FarmHABS GA-39-B203 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HABS GA-37-B. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
  • How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from the linked federal record; page labels and counts are clearly marked as site presentation or calculations.