Butler Island Plantation Historical Marker
N 31° 21.279 W 081° 26.719
17R E 457645 N 3468992
Butler Island Plantation Historical Marker on US 17/Ga 25 1.3 miles south of Darien, Ga
Waymark Code: WM1PQJ
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 06/17/2007
Views: 32
“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”
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 095-25
Date: 1957
Sponsor: Not listed
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