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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.
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).
May 13, 1976. 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.
Mulberry Grove Plantation. Mulberry Grove Plantation, located north of Port Wentworth, Chatham County, Savannah, was a rice plantation, notable as the location where Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. [2] Once a thriving plantation, comprising, in 1798, some. ... 500 acres of river swamp, under good dams and well drained; and 200 acres of ...
Myrtle Grove Plantation, Georgia. / 31.8843427; -81.2454178. Myrtle Grove is a historic plantation in Richmond Hill, Bryan County, Georgia, United States. American Revolutionary War hero Nathanael Greene was gifted a "Myrtle Grove plantation near Savannah from the citizens of Georgia" for his services as major general of the Continental Army. [1]
Butler Island Plantation. 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 ...
Province of Georgia. The Province of Georgia[1] (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern Colonies in colonial-era British America. In 1775 it was the last of the Thirteen Colonies to support the American Revolution. The original land grant of the Province of Georgia included a narrow strip of land that extended west to the Pacific Ocean. [2]
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 ...