Image Credit: David Seibert
Year Erected: 1990
Marker Text: This 18th-century stone dwelling is the only surviving house associated with the Colonial Wrightsborough Settlement (1768). Its builder, Thomas Ansley, used weathered granite, quarried in its natural form from the nearby geographical fall line, along with pine timbers, giving the house a distinctive Georgia character. While constructed with locally sourced materials, the architectural style of the Rock House is more similar to the stone houses in the Delaware Valley of New Jersey from which Ansley migrated. It is one of the earliest dwellings remaining in Georgia with its original architectural form intact. Ownership of the Rock House passed to Nicolas C. Bacon in the 1840s and in the 1880s to the Johnson family, who maintained 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.
Re-erected by the Georgia Historical Society in 2020
Tips for Finding This Marker: Located on Rock House Road 4 miles west of Georgia Route 223 in Thomson.
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