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Richmond Hill has a historical connection to industrialist Henry Ford. [5] Ford used the town, formerly known as Ways Station, as a winter home and philanthropic social experiment, building the complex known as the Ford Farms along the Ogeechee River in the 1930s.
In the late 1930s, Henry Ford bought the property and began restoring it. The International Paper Company purchased the property from Ford's estate and gave it to the State of Georgia in 1958. The Georgia Historical Commission continued to restore the fort to its 1863-64 appearance.
Kilkenny is east of Richmond Hill, Georgia, situated at the southeast end of Kilkenny Road and the western shore of Kilkenny Creek. The property fronts the creek and overlooks tidal salt marsh out towards the St. Catherines Islands and Ossabaw Islands, with access to St. Catherine's Sound. A nearby tidal station is named for the Kilkenny Club. [6]
May 13, 1970 (10 mi. E of Richmond Hill via GA 67: Richmond Hill: Now a Georgia state historic site website: 5: Glen Echo: Glen Echo: January 9, 1978 (2 miles (3 km) east of Ellabelle on GA 204
When Cherry Hill outgrew the little chapel and decided to build a new church, it sold the chapel to the Belleville Presbyterian Church for one dollar in July 1978. [9] The Willow Run chapel of Martha and Mary now stands a few miles from where it was originally constructed, on property that used to be owned by Henry Ford's Quirk Farms.
Henry Ford was born July 30, 1863, on a farm in Springwells Township, Michigan. [5] His father, William Ford (1826–1905), was born in County Cork, Ireland, to a family that had emigrated from Somerset, England in the 16th century. [6]
The Richmond Ford Assembly Plant switched to assembling jeeps and to putting the finishing touches on tanks, half-tracked armored personnel carriers, armored cars and other military vehicles destined for the Pacific Theater. By July 1942, military combat vehicles began flowing into the Richmond Ford plant to get final processing before being ...
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