The builder of this house, Samuel Henry Rumph, Sr., developed the Elberta peach and is considered the father of the commercial peach industry in Georgia. He named the Elberta for his wife, Clara Elberta Moore Rumph. He also developed techniques considered integral to the safe shipment of fresh fruits and vegetables. Read more about him here.
West Main Residential District, National Register of Historic Places
Vanishing Georgia: Photographs by Brian Brown 
This was one of the most technically advanced houses in Ga. ( esp.rural GA) for the time…central heat, numerous bathrooms and an elevator! As well as being stunningly beautiful! Thanks for adding to Vanishing GA!,
Samuel Henry Rumph was my great great great grandfather. My grandmother was Lillian Rumph. Her mother and father was Preston Rumph Senior and Ella McGhee Rumph.
The tequnique integral to shipping peaches that he invented was the refrigerated box car.
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This house has the most beautiful leaded glass windows. My husband and I went through Marshallville on a foggy night when the lights of the house were on. The light refracted through the fog and the street danced with prismatic colors.