The property also includes a peach-packing plant built in the 1930s and several tenant houses.

[2] According to Davis family tradition, William Mazyck Davis designed the house and oversaw its construction by his own skilled slaves and the slaves of his brother Edward.

The design is not dissimilar to several in Andrew Downing's The Architecture of Country Houses (1850).

During the Civil War, Davis organized and served as captain of Company H, Henderson Rangers, 45th Regiment.

[2] This article about a property in Georgia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.