From Staff Reports

A spectacular Saturday brought out buyers for a couple of auctions involving antebellum homes in Rome and Cedartown

Margaretta Hall, the home of Jo Ann Dulaney, and some 36 acres at 248 Reynolds Bend Road were sold to three different buyers for $730,300, a figure that includes a 10 percent buyer’s premium for American Auctioneers of Centre, Alabama.

The home was built in the early 1840s by J.J. Skinner, originally from the Augusta area. Lou Dempsey, with American Auctioneers, identified the primary purchaser as Debbie Shepherd Kines, a retired Floyd County school teacher. Dempsey said Kines bought the home and the heart of the farm acreage. Two other unidentified bidders purchased two other tracts.

Dulaney will be selling antiques that she has collected through the years during a separate sale to be held at a later date.

Cedartown’s historic “Landfall” plantation property was sold Saturday to three different buyers for a total of $776,875 which includes the 10 percent buyer’s premium to the Dempsey Auction Company of Rome.

The antebellum home, 900 N. Cave Spring Road, was built around 1843 for William Peek. It has been the home of by Don and Eulalie Pickett Wilson for the past 35 years. The home had been in the Pickett family since the end of World War Two.

Auctioneer Lynn Dempsey said the home and acreage on the east side of the old Cave Spring Road went to what he classified as a local buyer. That deal also involves a servant’s quarters building and approximately 47 acres of land.

A neighbor of the Wilsons bought 10 acres on the west side of Cave Spring Road, while an out-of-town couple purchased the remaining 123 acres of timbered land, also on the west side of Cave Spring Road.