DARIEN, Ga. (AP ... spent decades as a rice plantation before the Civil War. In 1859, owner Pierce Mease Butler infamously took more than 400 enslaved people to Savannah and sold them in ...
In March of 1857, the largest sale of human beings in the history in the United States took place at a racetrack in Savannah ... had inherited the family's Georgia plantations some twenty years ...
That’s how the story starts for this incredible home on the Isle of Hope, a paradise found just outside of Savannah, Georgia. As a mid-19th-century plantation plain house on the Skidaway River ...
Here you'll find the ruins of Wormsloe, the oldest standing structure in Savannah and the Colonial estate of Noble Jones, a carpenter who came to Georgia in 1733 with James Oglethorpe and the ...