Georgia. The lot consisted of four hundred and thirty-six men, women, children and infants, being that half of the negro stock remaining on the old Major Butler plantations which fell to one of ...

The old rice plantation on Butler Island also has personal ... For the communities around Georgia’s coast, the struggle continues, as efforts to preserve local history have grown urgent.

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 ...

THOMASVILLE, Ga. (WALB) - Footage of Pebble Hill Plantation’s baseball team has made its way from Thomasville all the way to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.