Liberty Hall is a historic plantation house from within the Simpson Plantation, located southeast of Americus, Georgia on South Lee Street. This site was known for cotton production, worked by enslaved people prior to 1865. The plantation house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 25, 1980.
History It is a two-story frame building by in plan, built c. 1861 by Thomas Dixon Speer. The plantation was in size, and was worked by 39 enslaved African Americans prior to the end of the American Civil War in 1865. The farming operation at its peak produced 23,200 pounds of ginned cotton, 2000 bushels of maize, as well as peas and beans, sweet potatoes, livestock, and molasses.
It is architecture is notable for its Greek Revival style, including its four-column portico. It has a hipped roof. It has a one-story kitchen addition built c.1888. with In 1980, the property size shrunk and only still exist.
It was owned by the Speer family for more than 100 years. It was sold in 1874 to Thomas Simpson, who later deeded the plantation to his son, George R. Simpson.
See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Sumter County, Georgia
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