- Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
- Title:
- Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 3, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast east of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA
- Creator:
- Historic American Engineering Record
- Date of Original:
- 1933/9999
- Subject:
- Sparta (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
quarries - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Hancock County, Sparta, 33.2757, -82.97626
- Medium:
- photographs
field notes - Type:
- Still Image
Text - Description:
- Photo(s): 16 | Data Page(s): 4 | Photo Caption Page(s): 2
Significance: Granite Hill Plantation historically consisted of 1,547 acres amassed by Andrew Jackson Lane, a wealthy Hancock County planter. The plantation was one of the largest in the county, and is associated with both the antebellum agricultural reform movement and early granite quarrying. This quarry is one of four on the former Granite Hill Plantation site that were put into use as early as 1850 to provide building materials throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and these early quarrying techniques are evident at the site.
Survey number: HAER GA-156-C
Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction - Local Identifier:
- HAER GA-156-C
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/ga1010/
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Original Collection:
- Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
- Holding Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
-
