We want to implement as much of the AAM's Museum Assessment Program recommendations as are possible, including creating a strategic plan, creating a mission statement and recruiting volunteers.

While Mills Riddick's contemporarires may have mocked his Greek Revival home when it was built in 1837, the house now stands as a beautiful reminder of the past. After Mills Riddick's death, his son Nathaniel became head of the household. Nathaniel and his family lived there until the Civil War. The Riddick home was then occupied by Major General John J. Peck. His staff of Union Army officers used Riddick's Folly as staff headquarters. Many of the penciled messages and autographs left on the walls by Union soldiers are still legible today. Riddick's Folly also houses the Governor Mills Godwin exhibit as well as the Celebrating King Peanut exhibit.