Tarver Plantation

Tarver Plantation, also called Tarva Plantation, is a historic property north of Newton in Baker County, Georgia. The site is identified primarily as a plantation house and associated historic property rather than as a contemporary commercial brand. Its principal surviving structure was built at approximately 1850 and reflects the Greek Revival architectural style. The property is associated with Henry Tarver, who owned and used it from about 1850 until 1897. Historical records cited in connection with the site indicate that Tarver enslaved 87 people in 1850, placing the property within the antebellum plantation economy of southwestern Georgia and linking its history to the institution of slavery in the United States. The property is located on Tarva Road, also designated County Route 122, north of Newton. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. At the time of its listing, the historic resource included one contributing building and five non-contributing buildings. Available reference material does not establish a modern operating business, consumer product line, corporate owner, public listing, or current commercial activity under the Tarver Plantation name. Accordingly, the name is documented here as the canonical historic property identified by the Wikipedia article, not as a conventional brand. Further research would be required to establish the property's present ownership, preservation status, public access arrangements, or any contemporary heritage, tourism, or hospitality use.

Tarver Plantation is a historic property in Baker County, Georgia, located north of Newton on Tarva Road, also known as County Route 122. The property is also referred to as Tarva Plantation. Its central plantation house was constructed at about 1850 in the Greek Revival style, an architectural mode widely used in the nineteenth-century American South for substantial residences and civic buildings. The available historical account identifies Henry Tarver as the owner and occupant of the property from approximately 1850 through 1897. The same account records that Henry Tarver owned 87 enslaved people in 1850. This fact is an essential part of the property's historical context: the plantation was connected to the antebellum agricultural and slaveholding system rather than representing only an architectural or residential site. The reference material does not specify the crops cultivated there, the precise construction date, the identities of builders or architects, or the property's subsequent ownership after 1897. In 1989, Tarver Plantation was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The listing recognized the historic property as an architectural and historical resource. At the time of the National Register listing, the property comprised one contributing building and five non-contributing buildings. The contributing structure is the principal historic resource, while the other buildings did not make an equivalent contribution to the property's documented historic character. No reliable source supplied for this entry identifies a current commercial enterprise, product portfolio, hospitality operation, institutional owner, or active brand-management program associated with Tarver Plantation. The property should therefore be understood as a named historic place rather than a conventional commercial brand. Its present condition, ownership, preservation management, and public accessibility are not established by the supplied material.

• 1989

  National Register of Historic Places listing

  [1]Tarver Plantationen.wikipedia.org

  Tarver Plantation was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The property was described as including one contributing building and five non-contributing buildings.

• 1897

  End of Henry Tarver's documented ownership period

  [1]Tarver Plantationen.wikipedia.org

  The available account identifies Henry Tarver as the owner and user of the property from about 1850 until 1897.

• 1850

  Construction of the plantation house

  [1]Tarver Plantationen.wikipedia.org

  The principal house at Tarver Plantation was built at approximately this time in the Greek Revival style.

• 1850

  Documented slaveholding by Henry Tarver

  [1]Tarver Plantationen.wikipedia.org

  Historical information associated with the property records that Henry Tarver owned 87 enslaved people in 1850, providing important context for the site's antebellum history.

Historic plantation property and listed architectural resource; no verified contemporary commercial brand positioning.

1. 1Tarver Plantationen.wikipedia.org