| 词条 | Smithonia, Georgia |
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| name =Smithonia | nrhp_type = hd | nocat = yes | image = Smithonia.jpg | caption = | nearest_city= Comer, Georgia | locmapin = USA Georgia#USA | area = | built =1866 | architect= James Monroe Smith (Georgia planter) | architecture= Plantation Plain | added = June 21, 1984 | governing_body = Private | refnum=84001213[1] }}Smithonia is an unincorporated community in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, United States at the intersection of Crawford-Smithonia and Smithonia Roads. It is also the name a historical plantation listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1] Smithonia is reported in the database of the NRHP as the nearest community to Howard's Covered Bridge, three miles away. The nearest city is Comer. Smithonia, near Athens, was founded and named by Georgia State Senator James Monroe Smith. In the post-Civil War economy, Smith nurtured a small farm into the state's largest plantation. HistoryThe land was part of Georgia agricultural tycoon and state legislator Smith's property holdings. It was built in 1866 in a "Plantation Plain" architectural style. The Smith and Dunlap Railroad connected the property with the Georgia Railroad at Dunlap, Georgia. The rail line was also used to construct Howard's Covered Bridge. James M. Smith held hundreds of debt slaves on a farm that stretched thirty miles from the town he named after himself: In the post-Civil War economy, Smith nurtured a small farm into the state's largest plantation. He became a major buyer of convicts soon after Georgia's Reconstruction government was toppled by a campaign of voter fraud and Ku Klux Klan violence. For workers he relied on an army of convict slaves, including many African Americans he had owned before the war or their descendants. If workers tried to flee, Smith relied on deputy sheriffs to recapture them and his own overseers to inflict brutal punishments. "They had dogs to trail them with so they always got caught, and then the whipping boss beat them almost to death," John Hill said. "It was awful to hear them hollering and begging for mercy. If they hollered 'Lord have mercy!' Marse Jim didn't hear them, but if they cried, "Marse Jim have mercy!' then he made them stop the beating. He say, 'The Lord rule Heaven, but Jim Smith ruled the earth.'"[2] References1. ^1 {{NRISref|2009a}} {{Oglethorpe County, Georgia}}{{coord|34|00|10|N|83|10|34|W|type:city_region:US-GA_source:GNIS-enwiki|display=title}}{{National Register of Historic Places}}{{GeorgiaUS-geo-stub}}2. ^Blackmon, D. A. (2008). Slavery By Another Name, New York: Anchor Books. 4 : Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)|National Register of Historic Places in Oglethorpe County, Georgia|Unincorporated communities in Oglethorpe County, Georgia|Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state) |
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