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ARCHIBALD SMITH PLANTATION HOME (1845)

CONNECT WITH THE Land – THE SMITHS – ROSWELL’S RENAISSANCE PLANTERS

See the 1840's Smith Plantation Home standing as majestically as it did over 150 years ago, with original furnishings inside and outbuildings which include slave quarters, barn, corn crib, kitchen, carriage house and an old well.  Attached to, the home is a parson’s room—on the back porch.

The home was built a mile north of what was then the blossoming town square of a little mill town known as Roswell, Georgia. Archibald Smith came here to escape the summer heat and insects of coastal Georgia, bringing his wife, children, and thirty slaves to help run a 300-acre plus plantation.

You will marvel at the home itself, which contains a treasury of fine antiques, including the 1833 piano in the parlor that the Smiths had crated up and moved to Valdosta, Georgia when they fled the Yankee invasion of Roswell during the Civil War. Over the mantle, since that war, has hung the engraving titled "The Burial of Latane", depicting the burial of a confederate soldier on a southern plantation, a remembrance of the oldest son the Smiths lost in the war.

The upstairs hall parlor and four bedrooms are on view. They contain numerous walnut and mahogany marble-topped chests and washstands, magnificent armoires and a spool, canopy bed that is original to the home.

In the dining area, view the banquet-sized walnut dining table, original to the house, and an Empire, crotch mahogany sideboard dating about 1860.

In the downstairs library, you'll see Archibald Smith's walnut plantation desk dating back to 1840—in a setting of floor-to-ceiling books from that era. In the hallway is a blue, balloon-back settee, circa 1870-75,  believed to have its original upholstery.  For information on Smith Plantation Programs and Events visit:   Archibald Smith Plantation