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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Abner William McGehee was born on February 17, 1779, in Prince Edward County, Virginia.He grew up near the Broad River in the state of Georgia.His maternal uncle, John Scott, was the founder of Alabama Town, which merged with New Philadelphia to become Montgomery, Alabama, in 1819.
Couper was born at Sunbury, Georgia, March 5, 1794.He joined the sophomore class in Yale College, in 1811, from St. Mary's College, Baltimore, and graduated in 1814.After his graduation he returned home, and in 1815 made a voyage to Europe for purposes of study and travel.
The Stafford Plantation was a plantation on Cumberland Island in Camden County, on the southeastern coast of Georgia. It was established in the early 19th century by Robert Stafford. It was established in the early 19th century by Robert Stafford.
Georgia, in 1829, made it unlawful for whites, slaves and free blacks to teach a slave or free black 'to read or write, either written or printed characters.'" [13] The most oppressive limits on slave education were a reaction to Nat Turner's Revolt in Southampton County, Virginia , during the summer of 1831.
The Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site is a former cotton plantation and state historic site in Juliette, Georgia, United States. Founded as a forced-labor farm worked by John Jarrell and the African American people he enslaved , the site stands today as one of the best-preserved examples of a "middle class" Southern plantation. [ 2 ]
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 ]
Butler Island Plantation was a former rice plantation located on Butler Island on the Altamaha River delta just South of Darien, Georgia. It was originally owned by Major Pierce Butler (1744–1822) and was also owned by Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston and then R. J. Reynolds Jr. The plantation is managed by the Georgia Department of Natural ...