Singer House

The Singer family were German Immigrants who came to South Georgia and were an influential family in Lumpkin. This house is unusual in that it has two seperate entrances. Many of the items you’ll see in the building originally belonged to the Singers. The chest in the bedroom was hand-stamped by a member of the family. In one of the front rooms of the house, there is a quilting frame. It spreads out fabric and is a lot easier to sew on than just letting material drape over your lap. In America, a quilt was originally just a practical item used as a warm blanket. They were also used to cover open or drafty doors and windows. No archaeological evidence survives of the earliest quilts because they were used until they fell apart and were no longer useable. By the 1840s however, quilting, while practical, became an elaborate artform. This was helped by the availability of commercially printed fabric rather than weaving fabrics at home.