Archibald Smith Plantation Home
Archibald Smith, one of Roswell's founding settlers, built this Georgia piedmont farmhouse in 1845 and worked the surrounding 300-acre plantation with enslaved laborers; three generations of his family lived here, and when they fled the Civil War for Valdosta they carried their 1833 parlor piano with them. The City of Roswell acquired the property in 1986 and opened it as a house museum in 1991, leaving the original outbuildings and family furnishings largely intact. Over the years, visitors and paranormal enthusiasts have described the apparition of a young girl, believed to be a member of the Smith family, lingering on the grounds. Others claim to have heard the notes of a piano drifting through rooms that stand empty. The reports cling to a house still full of the family's own possessions, as if the Smiths never entirely left.
📍 935 Alpharetta Street, Roswell, GA 30075, Roswell, GA · Get directions