Hickory Hill

Populist presidential candidate and Georgia political leader Thomas E. Watson purchased Hickory Hill from Captain James Wilson in 1900. He extensively renovated the house and grounds, installing telephones and constructing a power plant to provide lighting and water for indoor plumbing. In 1910 he built a printing plant there, known as the Jeffersonian, which employed thirty workers and produced his periodicals and books. After the deaths of Watson and his wife, their granddaughter Georgia Watson Craven owned Hickory Hill until 1947, when Walter J. Brown purchased it to preserve it in memory of Thomas Watson. Today Hickory Hill is owned and operated by the Watson-Brown Foundation.

Thomson, Georgia · United States