Butler Island Rice Plantation
- Address: US 17
- Vicinity: Butler Island, 1 mi S of Darien
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1793/00/00 | Pierce Butler | Owner | Enslaved African Americans work Pierce Butler's 300 acre rice plantation on Butler Island. | |||
1838/12/00 | Fanny Kemble | Author | Pierce Mease Butler's wife, English actress Fannie Kemble sojourns at Butler Plantaion in the winter and spring of 1838-1839. She writes a "Journal of a Residence On A Georgia Plantation" which describes the horrors of slavery. | Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 | Slavery In America | |
1859/03/03 | On 2-3 March 1859, Pierce Mease Butler avoids bankruptcy by selling 436 enslaved Americans for $303,850 at Ten Broeck racetrack near Savannah, Georgia. Known as "The Weeping Time", the sale is the largest single slave auction in United States history. | Slavery In America | ||||
1866/00/00 | Pierce Mease Butler and his daughter, Frances, return to Butler island and worked to revitalize their plantations. | |||||
1870/00/00 | Owen Wister | Visitor | Owen Wister often visits his Aunt Frances' Sea Island Plantation. | |||
1876/00/00 | Frances attempts for several years to make the estates profitable. In 1883, she publishes "Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War" depicting life during Reconstruction and promoting the benefits of the antebellum slavery. | |||||
1927/00/00 | Two-story home built for Col T L Huston, a half-owner of the New York Yankees, who had a Guernsey dairy farm and a successful truck farming operation that shipped iceberg lettuce grown in the restored rice fields. | |||||
1930/00/00 | Babe Ruth | Visitor | Babe Ruth visits Cap Huston. |
Particulars for Butler Island Rice Plantation: | |
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Cultural Affiliation | African American |
Cultural Affiliation | Antebellum |
Cultural Affiliation | Black American |
Sight Category | Historic District |
Agriculture | Plantation |
Cultural Affiliation | Sea Islanders |
Crime | Slavery |
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