Liberty Hall | |
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| Location | Crawfordville, Georgia |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 33°33′28″N 82°53′45″W / 33.55778°N 82.89583°W |
| Area | 7 acres (2.8 ha) |
| Built | 1834 |
| Part of | A. H. Stephens Memorial State Park (ID95000764) |
| NRHP reference No. | 70000216[1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | May 13, 1970 |
| Designated NHL | May 4, 1983[2] |
| Designated CP | June 22, 1995 |
Liberty Hall is a historic house museum in Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, Georgia, in the eastern Georgia Piedmont.[3] It was the home of Alexander H. Stephens, a prominent Georgia political figure who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1843–1853), Vice President of the Confederate States of America (1861–1865), and after the end of the American Civil War, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives again (1873–1882) and governor of Georgia (1882–1883). Stephens resided in the home from 1839 until his death in 1883.[4] The home is now a museum and part of A. H. Stephens Historic Park, a Georgia state park maintained by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and designated historic district. The larger A. H. Stephens Historic Park contains tent and trailer sites, picnic sites, and fishing ponds, as well as a nature trail and rustic cabins, and was mostly built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, beginning in 1933.[5]
The structure was also known as Bachelor's Hall in 1859.[4] The home was Stephens's "isolated haven," situated twenty miles away from Washington, Georgia.[6]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ "Liberty Hall (Bachelor's Hall)". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on October 4, 2012. Retrieved June 21, 2008.
- ^ Neat Pieces: The Plain-style Furniture of Nineteenth-century Georgia (University of Georgia Press, 1983), pp. 32–34.
- ^ a b Shearer Davis Bowman, Masters and Lords: Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers (Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 15.
- ^ The New Georgia Guide (University of Georgia Press, 1996), p. 341.
- ^ William W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion, Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854–1861 (Oxford University Press, 2007).