Welcome
Pineola Farms is located in Peach County, Georgia, on a 12-acre pecan orchard. The old Bassett home place still stands much as it has for over 140 years. Paul & Delise Knight are the current owners and are proud to call Pineola their home. One guest described Delise’s decorating style as the best example of balance without symmetry he had ever seen.
Look around our website and feel the warmth and southern hospitality Pineola Farms has been famous for in this area for many generations! Stephen E. Bassett, a minister, was the original owner of the farm and started the tradition of treating visitors as family... We hope you enjoy looking through all of the history here. Pineola truly is everything you love about the south!
The House
The house at Pineola is a very typical shotgun or dogtrot center-hall type home. The front door mirror images what was the back door. The long center hall with 14 ft ceilings and 7ft doors was ideal to help keep the house cool in the summertime. The kitchen to the home was originally detached, later, an addition was added that joined the kitchen to the main house. The back two rooms were actually another home that was located on the property. At some point, it was moved and connected to the main dwelling.
Pineola with its wrap-around porches is truly a Southern Farm home.
Details
Our Gardens
The gardens at Pineola Farms have seen a lot of changes over the last 160 years. In the early years, cotton and vegetables were planted, later peaches were added, and then pecans. Miss Henriet Bassett planted camellias, azaleas, nandina, English dogwood, and garlic. Paul and Delise have expanded the gardens to include an Italian garden that was inspired by a trip to Italy. They also added an English picking garden, the veg patch, an arbor garden, and others.
Our History
We can trace The home to about 1865. It was a modest home, 4 rooms with a center hall, and a detached kitchen.
Pineola was named by Henriette Bassett. She came to Georgia from Paris, France, in 1919, having married a Georgia man, Captain Ralph Bassett. She had gone to boarding school in England as a young girl and then returned to teach French in an English school. She named the farm Pineola for the Long Leaf Pines in the front yard.
Pronounced Pīneola - Sometimes written as Pinola in the past.
Ask about our connection to the Arnold Scheme just before WWII
This photo is from around 1907
