11-533: Jarrell may refer to: Places [ edit ] Jarrell Plantation , historic site Jarrell, Texas , city in Williamson County People with the given name Jarrell [ edit ] Jarrell Brantley (born 1996), American professional basketball player Jarrell Huang (born 2000), Singaporean singer-songwriter Jarrell Miller (born 1988), American boxer and kickboxer People with
22-629: Is a list of state parks in Georgia . The park system of the US state of Georgia was founded in 1931 with Indian Springs State Park and Vogel State Park . Indian Springs has been operated by the state as a public park since 1825, making it perhaps the oldest state park in the United States. The newest state park is Don Carter State Park . Since the Great Recession , Georgia has halved
33-526: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jarrell Plantation The Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site is a former cotton plantation and state historic site in Juliette, Georgia , United States. Founded as a forced-labor farm worked by John Jarrell and the African American people he enslaved , the site stands today as one of
44-683: The Sea , emancipation , and Reconstruction . After the Civil War, John Jarrell continued to farm with the help of formerly enslaved people and he increased the farm to nearly 766 acres (3.10 km ). The formerly enslaved people began leaving the farm in John Jarrell's final years. After John's death in 1884 one of John's sons, Benjamin Richard "Dick" Jarrell, gave up a teaching career to return home and build his family home in 1895. Although
55-653: The best-preserved examples of a "middle class" Southern plantation. The Jarrell Plantation's buildings and artifacts all came from the Jarrell family, who farmed the land for over 140 years. Located in the red clay hills of the Georgia piedmont , It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is a Georgia state park in Jones County . Before the Civil War , John Jarrell's farm
66-571: The city of Jarrell, Texas Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Jarrell . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jarrell&oldid=1234070560 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
77-507: The farm had been processing sugarcane since 1864, Dick Jarrell expanded the industrialization of the farm by adding a mill complex that eventually included a steam-driven sawmill, cotton gin, gristmill, shingle mill, and planer. In 1920, with the labor of his five sons and two nephews, Dick Jarrell completed a second home, fit for his large family. This house is a 5,000-square-foot (460 m ), 1850s-style home built of heart pine. In 1974, Dick Jarrell's nine surviving adult children donated
88-601: The plantation site to the State of Georgia for the preservation of the farm and the education of future generations about their heritage. The State of Georgia's Department of Natural Resources operates the now 200-acre (810,000 m ) historic site and opens it to the public Thursday through Sunday. The site's buildings and structures include the farmhouse, a sawmill , cotton gin , gristmill , shingle mill, planer, sugar cane press, syrup evaporator, workshop, barn and outbuildings. List of Georgia state parks This
99-441: The site in 1847. Typical of antebellum cotton plantations, John Jarrell ran the farm with his family and the forced labor of enslaved Africans. By 1860, Jarrell was enslaving 39 people to work his 660-acre (2.7 km ) farm. Although primarily a cotton plantation, the farm also provided food crops and grazing for livestock. During the turbulent decade of the 1860s, the farm survived a typhoid fever outbreak, Sherman's March to
110-885: The surname Jarrell [ edit ] Albert E. Jarrell (1901–1977), commissioned officer in the United States Navy Charles Michael Jarrell (born 1940), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church Jae Jarrell (born 1935), American artist Mary von Schrader Jarrell (1914–2007), patron of the arts and memoirist Michael Jarrell (born 1958), Swiss composer Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) American poet, literary critic Tommy Jarrell (1901–1985), American fiddler, banjo player, and singer Wadsworth Jarrell (born 1929), African-American painter See also [ edit ] Jarell , given name 1997 Jarrell tornado , an F5 tornado that affected
121-461: Was one of the half-million cotton farms in the South that collectively produced two-thirds of the world's cotton. Like many small planters , John Jarrell benefited from the development of the cotton gin in 1793 by Eli Whitney , which made it practical to cultivate heavily seeded, short-staple cotton even in hilly, inland areas of Georgia. John Fitz Jarrell built the first permanent structure on
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