Circa 1797, this house is a reminder of the days when tobacco was the primary cash crop in Georgia. Following the Revolutionary War, the area that now includes the counties of Wilkes, Elbert, Franklin, Lincoln, Warren, Oglethorpe and Greene, was opened for settlement. Ezekiel Harris came to the area from Edgefield, SC to build a town he’d hoped would rival Augusta. In September 1797 he announced in the Augusta Chronicle and Gazette of the State that his warehouse was in order to receive tobacco, and he also offered accommodations for the planters in “good frame house with a brick chimney” would be ready by the beginning of January 1798.