rockhouse

This 18th Century stone dwelling is the only surviving house associated with the Colonial
Wrightsboro Settlement (1768). Its builder, Thomas Ansley, used weathered granite,
quarried in its natural form from the nearby geographic fall line, as building material. The
granite, along with pine timbers and cypress shingles, gave the house a distinctive Ga.
Charter.

The architectural style of the Rock House is similar to stone houses in the Delaware
Valley of New Jersey from which Ansley migrated. It is the earliest dwelling in Georgia
with its original architectural form intact.

Ownership of the Rock House passed to Nicholas C. Bacon in the 1840's and in the
1880's to the Johnson family, who mainted it as a working plantation until the 20th
Century. The Johnson heirs, Effie Johnson Usry and Mary Ruth Johnson McNeil gave the
house to the Wrightsboro Quaker Community Foundation, Inc. in 1966, who restored the
house in 1981.