The side-gabled cottage with two front doors is among the rarer vernacular house types in Georgia, though it was once common as mill and tenant housing. This example in the Red Hills, and the three houses that follow, all represent distinct vernacular architectural types. They’re in a community known on maps as Piscola. Though named for nearby Piscola Creek, it may have had been related to a plantation. There were three African-American churches and a school in the general area, which was presumably populated by timber and turpentine workers.