Georgia, and cuts across the marshes, rivers and creeks along coastal McIntosh County leads to a historic site: Butler Island, a once vast antebellum plantation. Drivers unfamiliar with this ...

Right up there with Forsyth Park and River Street, Wormsloe State Historic Site is one of ... is the mile-long avenue leading to the former plantation, which is lined on both sides by towering ...

Since that first trip to Walnut Grove, I've visited hundreds of other former plantations in Georgia, Virginia ... Once, at Hampton Plantation State Historic Site in South Carolina, I asked ...

The owner of the slaves, Pierce Butler, had inherited the family's Georgia plantations some twenty years earlier, along with his brother John. But Pierce had squandered away his portion of the ...

At the McLeod Plantation Historic Site, visitors can learn important information about Gullah and Geechee heritage. This plantation was established in 1851, and by 1860, it was home to 74 enslaved ...