According to the National Register of Historic Places, “The Hudson-Nash property is significant as a mid-19th century farm and commercial property. The farmstead with several outbuildings and the general store/post office served as a center for the small-dispersed community of Yellow River.
This type of complex was characteristic throughout rural Georgia and provides an excellent example of the type of development found in Gwinnett County.” With the later early-20th century structures, the site presents an architectural record of virtually the entire developmental history of Gwinnett County’s agricultural past from the 1840’s to the 1940’s. Although the existing county owned site includes only 5.116 acres of the 85-acre National Register District, these few acres along with a similar area around the Hudson-Nash House across Five Forks Trickum Road formed the historic core of the Hudson-Nash farms. Furthermore, seven of the ten buildings that were noted by the National Register as contributing to the significance of the site are currently county owned property.
Thomas P. Hudson, Sr. came from South Carolina and established a 562-acre plantation around 1839. He represented Gwinnett County in the Georgia General Assembly for three terms, and in 1861, he traveled to the state Capitol in Milledgeville, where he voted against secession. He was the Postmaster at the Yellow River Post Office from 1846 until his death in 1862. The Hudson-Nash House and Cemetery consists now of an 85-acre tract of land that includes a two story antebellum house (currently a private residence), nine historic outbuildings; a general store/post office, two barns, small house, garage, blacksmiths shop, three sheds, slave house (Hudson owned 13 slaves) and a family cemetery where Thomas P. Hudson, Sr. is buried along with other Hudson family members and Hudson family slaves. The house and outbuildings are situated on both sides of Five Forks Trickum Road in Lilburn that was also originally an early stagecoach route through Gwinnett County (originally Stone Mountain-Lawrenceville Road - Hudson helped cut the road from Lawrenceville to DeKalb County around 1846). The farm complex was originally part of the Yellow River community.
