The Woodmanston Site, located southwest of Riceboro, Georgia off Barrington Road, is a historic site which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]
Woodmanston Site | |
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| Location | Southwest of Riceboro, Georgia off Barrington Rd. |
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| Coordinates | 31°41′52″N 81°28′23″W / 31.697778°N 81.473056°W |
| Area | 93.2 acres (37.7 ha) |
| Built | c.1810 |
| NRHP reference No. | 73000626[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 18, 1973 |
The site is gated, but visitors may enter the site by appointment.
Woodmanston was the plantation house of the Le Conte Plantation or Woodmanston Plantation, a rice plantation started by John Eaton LeConte, Sr. The plantation was developed in Bull Town Swamp, a "typical backwater and cypress swamp" which is a tributary to the South Newport River which in turn opens into Sapelo Sound. The site of the house was on a knoll above the tidal area and was, in 1972, still identifiable by the presence of a "few remaining hardwoods, flowering bushes and two palms." A botanical garden on the property, developed by his son Louis, became internationally known.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Marilyn Pennington (May 15, 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Woodmanston Site / Le Conte Plantation". National Park Service. Retrieved August 24, 2017. With six photos from 1972.