The Sylvester Mumford House was a historic residence in
Brantley County, Georgia
Brantley County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,021. The county seat is Nahunta.
Brantley County is part of the Brunswick, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical ...
near
Waynesville that was built in c. 1848. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The home burned on March 23, 2005.
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It was the home of Sylvester Mumford (1810-1889), who owned a store in Waynesville and served as Postmaster. It was a "two-over-two room" Plantation Plain
The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was so named in the 1930s by Fred Kniffen, a cultural geographer at Louisiana State University who was a specialist in folk archite ...
-style wood-frame house with Greek Revival influences. A Victorian style front porch and two wings built after the Civil War reflect the concern of its owner to keep up with architectural style. Three historic outbuildings were included in the NRHP nomination.[ with ]
The family was "particularly well-remembered in the area because Mumford's daughter, Gertrude Mumford Parkhurst, used money inherited from her parents to establish three still-existing funds for the education of poor white girls and orphans from Brantley County."[
The homesite is located off U.S. 82.
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
Houses completed in 1848
Buildings and structures in Brantley County, Georgia