This is another "new" home which fits handsomely into the pattern of Washington. The original house dates from the early 1900s, when the family of J.W. Chapman lived here. He was a railroad man and it was his pleasant duty to bring in the mail from Barnett seventeen miles away down the Georgia Railroad. The Chapmans were also connected with the newspaper.

The slot on which this house stands was known as the Terry lot and was owned in 1889 by Mrs. C. Vickers who sold it to H.H. Carey.

At the foot of South Alexander stands a tall holly tree which was planted by Georgia's lost poet, Thomas Holly Chivers. He was a contemporary of Edgar Allen Poe and claimed that Poe stole much of his poetry. Chivers wrote poems of pure sound, written to be read aloud for the music and rythm.