This was the home of businessman and Civil Rights leader Ralph Waldo Quarterman. It’s located adjacent to Mr. Quarterman’s grocery store.
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Tag Archives: Houses of Coastal Georgia
Eclectic House, Circa 1884, Walthourville
This unusual house likely originated as a central hallway design with the protruding “wings” being later additions.
Filed under -LIBERTY COUNTY, Walthourville GA
Colonel Edward Payson Miller House, Circa 1845, Walthourville
I identified this as the Miller House, using a photograph in Virginia Fraser Evans’s Liberty County: A Pictorial History. Colonel Miller was a Confederate veteran associated with the Liberty Independent Troop and one of the most prominent members of the community, serving as a leader in the Walthourville Presbyterian Church. It is also known as the Miller-Dryden House.
Filed under -LIBERTY COUNTY, Walthourville GA
Thomas H. McMillan House, 1888, Savannah
Now known as the McMillan Inn, this imposing Italianate Victorian was originally the home of Thomas Hasley McMillan (11 March 1854-21 September 1941), one of late-19th-century Savannah’s most successful businessmen. He came to Savannah from Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1878, to open a branch of his McMillan Copper Works. The most successful supplier of turpentine stills in the South, they once had plants in Fayetteville, Jacksonville, Pensacola, and Savannah. Mr. McMillan also served as chairman of the Savannah Park & Tree Commission.
Some sources note that it was originally home to the “McMillan Brothers” and was designed as a duplex. I’ve been unable to track down information about the brother but will update when I learn more.
Savannah Historic District, National Historic Landmark
Filed under -CHATHAM COUNTY, Savannah GA
