Mulberry Grove Site

  • Also Known As: Mulberry Grove

  • Vicinity: Address Restricted
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Site

Mulberry Grove was a cotton plantation and the former home of Katharine Greene (nothing remains). Here Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin while working as a tutor for Mrs Greene. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1782/04/13 Maj Gen Nathanael Greene State legislature rewards Nathanael Greene for service in the Revolution with Mulberry Grove Plantation
1782/04/13 Katharine Littlefield Greene State legislature rewards Nathanael Greene for service in the Revolution with Mulberry Grove Plantation
1782/05/00 Nathaniel Ray Greene Home General Greene removes his residence from Rhode Island to Georgia.
1786/06/19 Maj Gen Nathanael Greene Died Nathanael Greene dies at home. Originally buried in Colonial Park Cemetery, his remains, once lost, were discovered in 1901 in the Graham vault.
1794/04/14 Eli Whitney Inventor Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the Cotton Gin he created at Mulberry Grove Invention of the Cotton Gin

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Particulars for Mulberry Grove Site:
Area of Significance Agriculture
Area of Significance Historic and non-aboriginal
Criteria Historic Event
Criteria Information Potential
Area of Significance Invention
Level of Significance National
Cultural Affiliation Native American
Criteria Person
Agriculture Plantation
Area of Significance Prehistoric
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling
Sight Category Site



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 17th July 1975

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Mulberry Grove Site
Registry Address: Address Restricted
Registry Number: 75000575
Resource Type: Site
Owner: Private
Architect: unknown
Architectural Style: No style listed
Area in Acres: 153
Contributing Sites: 2
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Prehistoric, Historic and non-aboriginal, Invention, Agriculture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Person, Information Potential
Cultural Affiliation: Native American, American Plantation
Period of Significance: 1700-1749, 1850-1874, 1750-1799
Significant Year: 1794
Associated People: Whitney,Eli
Historic Function: Domestic, Agriculture, subsistence
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling
Current Function: Vacant, not in use
Current Sub-Function:

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