Historic House

Historic House. . Robert Mable was born in Scotland in 1803 and immigrated with his family to New York State in 1820. At first, Robert lived and worked in Savannah, Georgia and then in Hancock County, Georgia where he married Pheriby Aycock in 1838., In 1843, Robert purchased 300 acres of land from Denson Melton and began work on this two-story plantation plain house. By 1850, he owned more than 400 acres, and by 1860, more than 600 acres., The primary crops grown here were cotton, corn, sweet potatoes and sorghum. In addition to farming, Robert was a millwright and a carpenter and operated a sawmill on his property. The family grew to include six children before Pheriby Mable died in 1851 in childbirth with their seventh child. In 1855 Robert married Pheriby's first cousin, Almeda Polk Aycock. She brought two children into the marriage and she and Robert had three children of their own., Prior to and during the Civil War, Robert Mable owned at least 11 slaves who built this house and worked the land. Some of their names were entered in the family Bible, thus they are known to us today. During the Civil War, the house was used as a field hospital for Union troops making their way to Atlanta., In 1881 Robert Mable conveyed a section of his land for the railroad to pass through and the town that grew up around the railroad was named Mableton. Robert Mable died in 1885 and was buried next to Pheriby in the family cemetery. Almeda died in 1912 and was buried on the other side of Robert., Did you know…
A plantation plain house is defined by the Georgia State Historic Preservation office as having “a two-story block at the front, with either a central hallway or hall parlor plan, and a one story range of rooms at the rear, consisting of either three rooms, or more commonly, a short rear hallway flanked by a pair of rooms. The rear section is typically shed-roofed, the two story block is usually gabled, and there is most often a full width, one story porch.”, [Captions] , . (Top) Handmade Chest in Mable House Bedroom Photo by Deborah Karwisch , . (Bottom) Rope Bed in Mable House bedroom Photo by Deborah Karwisch . This historical marker is in Mableton in Cobb County Georgia