It was the seat of a forced-labor farm whose white owners enslaved a large number of African-Americans, including the ancestors of political activist Briahna Joy Gray.

The building has a two-story pedimented front portico supported by four square columns on freestanding brick piers.

Outbuildings include a pine clapboard kitchen building, a round-cut log constructed smokehouse, and a one-room schoolhouse.

[4] It was later the home of Ellison Durant "Cotton Ed" Smith, a United States Senator from 1908 to 1944 widely known for his virulently racist and segregationist views and his advocacy of white supremacy.

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