NE of Buford off U.S. 23 on Friendship Rd., Buford, Georgia. County/parish: Hall.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 14, 1973. NRIS 73000623.
1 contributing building.
The Bowman-Pirkle House is a historic two-story log house in Buford, Georgia.
It was built in 1818 for John Bowman, who served under General Andrew Jackson during the First Seminole War of 1816–1819. The house was built with the help of Cherokees as a token of the friendship between Bowman and Chief Major Ridge. According to Elizabeth Z. Macgregor of the Georgia State Commission, "this house is probably one of the earliest structures built and occupied by whites in this Indian territory." In 1890, it was acquired by Bowman's daughter Amanda and her husband, Noah Pirkle, who had served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War of 1861–1865. It was inherited by their descendants, who kept it in the family until 1969. In 1977s, Golden Pirkle gave it to the Hall County Historical Society. The house was returned to Bowman descendants around 2003.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208560