Seaborn Goodall House, Historic residence in Screven County, United States.
The Seaborn Goodall House is a two-story Plantation Plain-style house built in 1815 at Jacksonborough, a former Screven County seat. It stands near Sylvania, Georgia, and is also known as the Goodall-Dell House or locally as the Dell-Goodall House.
Seaborn Goodall built the house in 1815 in Jacksonborough, then the seat of Screven County from 1795 to 1847. Goodall was the son of Pleasant Goodall, a Revolutionary soldier who fought at Brier Creek, and served as Clerk of the Superior Court of Screven County from 1816 to 1836. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
Seaborn Goodall was a pioneer in establishing the Methodist faith in Screven County, and in 1820 he rescued the itinerant preacher Lorenzo Dow from a mob and sheltered him in this house. The building is now owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
The house stands at the junction of U.S. Route 301 in Jacksonborough, north of Sylvania; the site is owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The building is a private property, so visits depend on the owner's arrangements.
In 1820 a mob in Jacksonborough threatened the itinerant preacher Lorenzo Dow; Seaborn Goodall rescued him and sheltered him in this house. Dow then cursed the town to be destroyed except for the Goodall House, and Jacksonborough faded while the house survived.
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