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Plantation house that Margaret Mitchell based Tara off of in Gone With the Wind. 75000575. Mulberry Grove Plantation. July 17, 1975. Port Wentworth. Chatham. Former plantation of Nathanael Greene. Location where Eli Whitney conceived the cotton gin. 80000979.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Lebanon Plantation. Lebanon Plantation is a state historic site located at 5745 Ogeechee Road in Savannah, Georgia. The site is over 500 acres (2.0 km 2) consisting of a large estate granted to James Deveaux in 1756, and was named for the many cedar trees on the property. An additional 500 acres were granted to Phillip Delegal in 1758 and ...
The Wormsloe Historic Site, originally known as Wormsloe Plantation, is a state historic site near Savannah, Georgia, in the southeastern United States. The site consists of 822 acres (3.33 km 2) protecting part of what was once the Wormsloe Plantation, a large estate established by one of Georgia's colonial founders, Noble Jones (c. 1700-1775).
Greenwood Plantation is a plantation in the Red Hills Region of southern Georgia, just west of Thomasville. Its Greek Revival main house was built in 1838 and expanded in 1899. [ 2 ] The plantation includes 5,200 acres of forest used for quail hunting with 1,000 acres of old-growth longleaf pines, some up to 500 years old.
Melrose and Sinkola Plantations. Mill Creek Plantation. Millpond Plantation. Mitchell J. Green Plantation. Mulberry Grove Plantation. Myrtle Grove Plantation, Georgia.
Butler Island (Georgia) The Butler River, with Butler Island on the left. Taken from the US Route 17 bridge. Butler Island is a 1,600-acre (647.5-hectare) island in the Altamaha River in McIntosh County, Georgia, United States. [1] Part of the Altamaha River Delta, the island is located 1 mi (1.6 km) south-southeast of Darien, Georgia.
April 11, 1972. The Callaway Plantation, also known as the Arnold-Callaway Plantation, [2][3] is a set of historical buildings, and an open-air museum located in Washington, Georgia. The site was formerly a working cotton plantation with enslaved African Americans. [4] The site was owned by the Callaway family between 1785 until 1977; however ...