Tatanya Peterson, a descendant of Hampton and Grace Hathcock, shares her family genealogy.
Come join us for the Grand Opening of the Kitchen on Saturday, April 18th
at 11 AM!
After many long years of fundraising and construction, the Kitchen has been completed. The original kitchen burned down in the 1920s. Using archival photographs, the “new” kitchen was designed to look just like the original one. After the ribbon cutting, the Homestead and the Allen & Ethel Graham Visitors Center will remain open until 2 PM for visitors to explore. Free and open to the public.
Funded in part by Visit Gainesville, Alachua County, FL
WELCOME to the Historic Haile Homestead at Kanapaha Plantation. In 1854, Thomas Evans and Serena Chesnut Haile moved their family from Camden, South Carolina to Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida. Their 6,200 square foot home was built by 56 enslaved laborers. The Historic Haile Homestead is unique in the nation for its "Talking Walls." For a reason lost to time, the Haile family wrote on the walls of their home - over 12,500 words in almost every room and closet! Come visit us this weekend and see this gem of history, frozen in time. Let the walls speak to you of joys and sorrows of more than a century ago. Visit the Allen and Ethel Graham Visitors Center and Museum! Learn about the enslaved laborers and freedmen, whose stories are intertwined into the fabric of our tours! We have videos to watch while you wait for your tour to begin: "Beginnings" and "Enslavement to Freedom." Learn about a group of cotton planters who relocated from South Carolina to Florida. And more importantly, learn about what slavery was, the brutal truth of it, and how Reconstruction and Jim Crow impacted freedmen in Alachua County and Florida.