Stories Behind the Nation's Historic Buildings & Structures
Just down the street from Pomegranate Hall in Sparta, Georgia is a house commonly referred to as the Pendleton-Graves House. It was built in 1815 by Thomas Whaley in the Plantation Plain style or I-House, an architectural style that is quite common throughout the South and described as being two rooms wide and one room
Dr. Nathaniel Alpheus Pratt was born in 1834 in Darien, Georgia, and grew up in Roswell just north of Atlanta. He studied chemistry and engineering at Harvard University and gained a reputation as a brilliant mind, leading him to become an advisor for the Confederacy during the Civil War for the production of gunpowder. Following