Those allowances – from the King of England until 1776 and then Georgia’s governors after the American Colonies declared their independence – enabled the establishment of rice plantations ...

St. Simons Island, off the coast of Georgia, is a paradise of beaches, golf courses, tennis courts, swimming pools and nature trails. Roads pass beneath live oak-tree canopies, draped with Spanish ...

Excerpts from the 1863 publication by Mortimer Thomson, What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation. . . The largest sale of human chattels that has been made in Star-Spangled America for ...

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- Pebble Hill Plantation recently announced that it will participate in the Georgia History Festival’s Super ...

Along with the ruins, visitors can tour a small museum featuring artifacts unearthed at Wormsloe and watch a brief film about the site and ... who maintained the plantation. Many visitors said ...

The Georgia Bulldogs have offered a scholarship to five-star Texas Longhorns quarterback commitment Dia Bell. The 6-foot-3, ...