- Butler Island Plantation State
Historical Marker
- Located on U.S. 17 1.3 miles south of Darien, Ga.
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- BUTLER ISLAND PLANTATION
Famous rice Plantation of the 19th
century, owned by Pierce Butler of Philadelphia. A system of
dikes and canals for the cultivation of rice, installed by engineers
from Holland, is still in evidence in the old fields, and has
been used as a pattern for similar operations in recent years.
During a visit here with her husband
in 1839-40, Pierce Butler's wife, the brilliant English actress,
Fannie Kemble, wrote her "Journal of a Residence On A Georgia
Plantation," which is said to have influenced England against
the Confederacy.
- 095-25 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1957
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