Ashantilly

	Ashantilly
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	McIntosh County, Georgia
Nearest city	Darien, Georgia
Coordinates	31°22′52″N 81°24′47″W / 31.381165°N 81.413051°W
Area	34 acres (14 ha)
Built	1820
NRHP reference No.	15000103
Added to NRHP	August 25, 2015

Ashantilly was built by 1820 by Thomas Spalding (1774–1851), north of Darien, Georgia. The construction probably took 2 or 3 years. The house is made out of tabby and is also called Old Tabby. The house was named after Ashintully Castle, an ancestral home in Perthshire, Scotland.^[2]^[3]

Spalding was a businessman in Darien and inherited property from his mother, Margery McIntosh. He was the owner of the Sapelo Island Plantation.^[4]

The Wilcox family bought Ashantilly in 1870 and they made several changes to the house, removing classical columns and marble flagging. The Haynes family moved to the house in 1918. In 1937 the house was gutted by a fire. Restoration of the house started in 1939, using period pieces salvaged in Savannah and Charleston. William Greaner Haynes, Jr. (1908–2001), in 1954, started a private press, the Ashantilly Press, and a building for printing was built on the property. The family donated the property to the Ashantilly Center (a non-profit organization) in 1993.^[2]

Ashantilly was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 2015.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Ashantilly and the Haynes Family, leaflet available at the house, dated May 2002
^ Reid, A. G. (1997). Strathardle: Its History & Its People : Facts, History, Legends Together with Personal Reminiscences. A.G. Reid.
^ Coulter, E. Merton (January 1, 1940). Thomas Spalding of Sapelo. University, La.: Louisiana State University Press.

External links

Media related to Ashantilly at Wikimedia Commons
Ashantilly Center website
NRHP announcement

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[Ashantilly_and_Haynes-2] Ashantilly and the Haynes Family, leaflet available at the house, dated May 2002

[3] Reid, A. G. (1997). Strathardle: Its History & Its People : Facts, History, Legends Together with Personal Reminiscences. A.G. Reid.

[4] Coulter, E. Merton (January 1, 1940). Thomas Spalding of Sapelo. University, La.: Louisiana State University Press.

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