Robertville Baptist Church, photo by Eric Plaag
J. C. Richardson House, photo by Eric Plaag
The Pineland, photo by Thomas O. Lawton, Jr.
Robertville Baptist Church
The present Robertville Baptist Church was originally the Ascension Episcopal Church at Gillisonville. Following the Civil War, this building was disassembled, moved to, and reconstructed at the Robertville crossroads in 1871 on the former site of the Black Swamp Baptist Church. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in February 1972. To read the original NRHP nomination document, click on the button below.
J. C. Richardson House
The J. C. Richardson House (built ca. 1880) was the home of James Clarence Richardson (1852-1931), a prominent Hampton County and Jasper County farmer, businessman, inventor, and local/state politician who lived at Robertville for most of his adult life and ran an important general store for the community on a nearby parcel. The J. C. Richardson House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in September 2014. To read more about this stunning example of a two-story, center hall, Folk Victorian home, click on the button below. [Private residence; please be respectful of private property.]
The Pineland
The Pineland, located just northwest of Robertville on the east side of US 321 near Garnett, was built circa 1815 by William Henry Lawton (1775-1827) as the summer home for his nearby residence, Black Swamp Plantation. Lawton was the first postmaster at Black Swamp village (later Robertville), and he likely donated the land where the third iteration of the Black Swamp Baptist Church was built in 1825. To read more about his summer home, click on the button below. [Private residence; please be respectful of private property.]