Pebble Hill Plantation is a plantation and museum located near
Thomasville, Georgia
Thomasville is the county seat of Thomas County, Georgia, United States. The population was 18,881 in 2020.
The city deems itself the "City of Roses" and holds an annual Rose Festival. The city features plantations open to the public, a histor ...
. The plantation is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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.
History
The plantation was established in the 1820s, when Thomas Jefferson Johnson built the first house.
After his death, the plantation was inherited by his daughter, Julia Ann, and her husband, John H. Mitchell.
They hired English architect
John Wind to design a new mansion.
Their slaves grew cotton, tobacco and rice.
The plantation was purchased by
Howard Melville Hanna in 1896.
It was passed on to his daughter Kate in 1901,
who turned it into a hunting estate.
After the
main house burned down in 1934, architect
Abram Garfield
Abram Garfield (November 21, 1872 – October 16, 1958) was an architect who practiced in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the youngest son of President James A. Garfield and Lucretia Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield. He designed prominent residences a ...
designed the new mansion, completed in 1936.
After Kate's death, the plantation was inherited by her daughter, Elizabeth "Pansy" Ireland.
Through the Pebble Peach Foundation endowed by Pansy Ireland, the plantation is open to the public.
Th
Pebble Hill Plantation Film Collectionat the University of Georgia's Brown Media Archives is thought to contain the earliest known moving image recording of Georgia, dating to 1917.
See also
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Ochlocknee Missionary Baptist Church, a church founded by slaves in 1848, originally located on the outskirts of Pebble Hill Plantation
References
External links
Pebble Hill Plantation website
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1820s establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Neoclassical architecture in Georgia (U.S. state)
Colonial Revival architecture in Georgia (U.S. state)
Houses in Thomas County, Georgia
Historic house museums in Georgia (U.S. state)
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
Museums in Thomas County, Georgia
Plantations in Georgia (U.S. state)
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
National Register of Historic Places in Thomas County, Georgia