Pine Bloom Plantation
a.k.a. Pinebloom Plantation
Tarva Rd./Co. Rt. 122, 0.75 mi. S of Baker/Dougherty county line, Newton, GAPinebloom Plantation was the plantation home of Alfred Holt Colquitt (1824-1894) and his wife Dorothy (Dolly) Tarver Colquitt (1829-1855) from the 1850s to 1875 and is significant for its intact antebellum plantation house, its association with Colquitt, and its use as an extensive working farm in both the 19th and 20th centuries. It is significant in the areas of agriculture, architecture, politics government.
Local significance of the district:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
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