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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.
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 ]
John McGavock (1815–1893), Louisiana plantation owner and private secretary to Attorney General Felix Grundy. Mariah Reddick was enslaved by McGavock and continued to work for his family after the Civil War. [211] James McGill (1744–1813), Scottish businessman and founder of Montreal's McGill University, was a slave owner. [212]
African American slave owners within the history of the United States existed in some cities and others as plantation owners in the country. [1] During this time, ownership of slaves signified both wealth and increased social status.
David Dickson. Amanda America Dickson was born into slavery in Hancock County, Georgia.Her enslaved mother, Julia Frances Lewis Dickson, was just 13 when she was born. Her father, David Dickson (1809–1885), [2] was a white planter and slave plantation owner who owned her mother; he was one of the eight wealthiest plantation owners in the county.
Mostly built by Louisiana Creole people, but occasionally found in other parts of the Deep South formerly under the dominion of New France, they were structures that housed the adolescent or unmarried sons of plantation owners. At some plantations it was a free-standing structure and at others it was attached to the main house by side-wings.
Owners include: pre-1812 John Keating built it, sold it for $1200 to James O'Neal; James O'Neal made the property into a successful cotton plantation, sold it for $1900 in 1820; Z. Weddington, sold it for $1400; William Walker owned it; James Jackson sold the house and its 202.5 acres (81.9 ha) for $1200 to Mrs. Francis M. Gatewood
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 ...