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Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm

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A Piedmont homestead originally settled by brothers James and Patrick Shields in 1798, this preserved 152-acre property contains one of Georgia's most diverse collections of farm buildings. Fifty-eight buildings and three structures stand on the property, including an 1866 homeplace, cotton gin, grist mill, mule barn, wheat house, warehouse, commissary, teacher's residence, and Bachelors’ Academy, a school for grades 1-7.
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