The House at Hardman Farm State Historic Site

Hardman Farm State Historic Site is an underrated Georgia State Historic Site. The house is this incredible bit of Italianate architecture built right around the Civil War. The entire property is lovely with well-preserved buildings that highlight the rapid economic succession of the Deep South from the pre-settler era to the antebellum era to the modern era.

The site is on this floodplain valley right along the Chattahoochee River as it emerges from the headwaters. The land still has ancient mounds from Woodland peoples who lived there before De Soto. The land, house, and wealth are all stark reminders that the elite Confederates who (still*) cry pity about how much they “lost” actually did quite well in the post-Civil War South.