Haile Homestead, Historic plantation house in Gainesville, United States
The Haile Homestead encompasses 6,200 square feet of living space, featuring original wooden beams supported by four-foot-tall mortared limerock piers throughout the structure.
Built in 1856 by Thomas Evans Haile and Serena Chesnut Haile after relocating from South Carolina, this plantation house required the labor of 56 enslaved individuals.
The homestead represents the complex social dynamics of the antebellum South, transitioning from a cotton plantation to a productive farm following the Civil War.
The property offers guided tours on weekends, with Saturday hours from 10 AM to 2 PM and Sunday hours from 12 PM to 4 PM, at an admission fee of 5 dollars.
The walls of the homestead contain over 12,500 handwritten words left by the Haile family, documenting daily life experiences from more than a century ago.
Location: Florida
GPS coordinates: 29.59444,-82.43528
Latest update: September 23, 2025 14:24
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