Hardman Farm Historic Site includes the Nichols-Hunnicutt-Hardman Farm, also known as West End and Elizabeth on the Chattahoochee, a collection of 17 buildings, one ruin, and a gazebo whose structures were built within a span of 50 years and were owned by three men. Its earliest buildings date from the period just after the Civil War, when a Confederate States army officer who had inherited wealth built West End as an elegant home. The next owner was Calvin Welborn Hunnicutt, an Atlanta businessman with a large extended family, and in 1903 Lamartine Griffin Hardman, a doctor, businessman, farmer, and future governor, purchased the property. After Hardman established the Nacoochee Dairy, he built a small L-shaped farmhouse about 1908 for the dairy manager's family because he lived much of the year in Commerce or at the Governor's Mansion. The house had indoor plumbing, wood floors, and two porches, and beginning about 1921 it became the home of Bob Minish and his family, including six children. Minish worked the farm for 20 years after arriving in the early 1920s, following earlier dairymen including Mr. Westmoreland, Mr. Cannon, and Mr. Devidson. After Bob's death in late 1945, his fifth child, Opal, and his wife Trecie remained at the farm for more than 40 years as caretakers and continued caring for the property long after the Nacoochee Dairy closed. The Minish family lived comfortably there even during the Great Depression, recalling that it was the only time they locked the smokehouse because many others in the valley lacked the same access to food. A third generation of the family later continued that role, and Bruce Minish, who was born on the property and once served as caretaker, remained active in preserving the farm. Many Hardman descendants regarded the Minish family as the fourth family associated with the farm, and Josephine Hardman remembered them as friends rather than tenants or employees while the Hardman family paid for the Minish children's education.