Georgia

Darracott-Logan House, Washington, Georgia (33.770891, -82.804754)

Primary Log House          Felling Dates: Winter 1829/30, Winter 1828/9

Site Master 1684-1829 (yellow pine) DLGAx1 (t = 8.63 GEORGIA2; 7.99 WBGx1; 6.20 BEGGx1).

The Darracott-Logan House originally stood in the 1000 block of East Robert Toombs Street in Washington, but has been moved twice, the second time to its present site on the south side of US Route 78 west of Washington. It is now owned by Wilkes Barnett. It was originally built by Garland Darracott or John Thompson, and thought to have served as a tavern on the Augusta Road. Later owners included William Wynne and the Logan family.

The house exemplifies the type of the two-story, central hall, double pile house, a fairly early example in the Georgia backcountry. Its earliness is perhaps seen in the fact that the rear rooms on both stories are smaller than the front ones, recalling the proportions of the two-story, I-house with one-story rear shed wing common in Georgia earlier. The open well stair and other woodwork represents fine Federal style work.

Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the building was constructed from timbers felled in the winter of 1828/9 and the winter of 1829/30.

Worthington, M J and Seiter, J I 2025 “The Tree-Ring Dating of the Darracott-Logan House, Washington, Georgia” Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory Report 2025/17

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