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.

GHM 095-25 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1957

Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.

Original page, with additional info, here.

Photo credit: Mike Stroud.