Archibald Smith Plantation
This home was built in the 1840's in Roswell, Georgia. It still has its original
furnishings inside and out, along with 12 outbuildings including barn, corn crib, kitchen,
carriage house and old well. The house was build a mile north of a little mill town known
as Roswell, and was used for the family's summer home who brought with then 36 servants.
The home is available to see by tour, and sports a piano dating back to 1833, in the parlor,
which they had crated up and moved to Valdosta when the yankees invaded Roswell during the
War Between the States.
The upstairs contains a hall parlor and four bedrooms, and contains numerous walnut
and mahogany marble-topped chests and washstands, armoires, as well as a canopy bed.
Archibald left his two coastal homes in St. Mary (Glynn County) to bring his family to Roswell.
Originally the home had 300 acres of farmland.
His grandson, Arthur Smith, began renovations on the old home in 1940, and "raised the roof"
over the old front porch, adding columns.
