Morgan Farm (Sumter County, Georgia)

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Morgan Farm, also known as the Nathan Morgan Home Place, is a historic rural farm near Smithville in Sumter County, Georgia. It was founded in 1886 by Nathan Morgan, an African-American man who had been enslaved. He bought about 202 acres and built the main farmhouse around 1890, where he and his nine children lived. The farm includes a central-hall house, six historic outbuildings (a smokehouse, cotton barn, hog pen, mule barn, corn crib, and hen house), cultivated fields, pastures, a well, and a few newer structures like a non-historic ranch house, a shed, and a carport. The property covers about 117 acres (47 hectares) and shows late-19th-century Southern vernacular architecture. In 1995 Georgia named it a Centennial Farm, and on February 26, 1998 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its role in African American heritage and agriculture. The Morgan family still owned the property in 1998.