Bacon-Fraser House

{{short description|Historic house in Georgia, United States}}

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Bacon-Fraser House

| image = Bacon-Fraser house Hinesville GA USA.jpg

| caption = Bacon-Fraser House in 2014

| location = 208 E. Court St., Hinesville, Georgia

| coordinates = {{coord|31|50|53|N|81|35|37|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = USA Georgia

| built = 1839

| architecture = Plantation Plain

| added = April 18, 1985

| area = {{convert|3.5|acre}}

| refnum = 85000848{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

File:Bacon-Fraser house marker.jpg

The Bacon-Fraser House is a historic home in Hinesville, Georgia in Liberty County, Georgia, built in 1839, two years after Hinesville was founded. It is a two-story Plantation Plain style house with weatherboard sides. The house is raised and rests on Savannah brick piers. A rear shed room and ell addition was added in 1979, built on foundations that are believed to have been original to rear rooms that were removed in 1923.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=85000848}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Bacon-Fraser House |publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=February 8, 2017 |author=Andrea Niles |date=February 28, 1985 }} with {{NRHP url|id=85000848|photos=y|title=14 photos}}

During the American Civil War, General Sherman's army occupied the plantation in 1864, pillaged it, and burned the outbuildings.{{Cite web|url=http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/gahistmarkers/baconfraserhousehistmarker.htm|title = Georgia Historical Markers Collection Items - Digital Library of Georgia}}

In 1980, Savannah Landscape Architect Clermont Huger Lee designed a period appropriate planting plan for residence area.{{cite journal |last1=Dolder |first1=Ced |title=Clermont Lee, (1914-2006) Pioneering Savannah Landscape Architect |journal=Magnolia – Publication of the Southern Garden History Society |date=Spring 2014 |volume=XXVII |issue=2 |page=4 |url=http://southerngardenhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Magnolia_Spring2014.pdf |accessdate=16 February 2020}} Coincidentally, Lee's niece married a descendant of the Bacon-Fraser's.

The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

It is the only building surviving from Hinesville's early settlement period. The house is far back from Court Street but there is a historical marker near the street.