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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
The Witham Cotton Mills Village Historic District is a 18 acres (7.3 ha) historic district in Hartwell, Georgia.The district included 47 contributing buildings along Liberty Circle, Jackson, and Webb Streets in Hartwell, including Bungalow/craftsman, Late Victorian, and vernacular Victorian architecture.
The Boston Historic District in Boston in Thomas County, Georgia is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [1] The district then included 192 contributing buildings , five contributing structures, and two contributing sites, as well as 140 non-contributing buildings.
The Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site is a former cotton plantation and state historic site in Juliette, Georgia, United States.Founded as a forced-labor farm worked by John Jarrell and the African American people he enslaved, the site stands today as one of the best-preserved examples of a "middle class" Southern plantation. [2]
James Griffin Boswell (May 13, 1882 - September 11, 1952), was the founder of the J. G. Boswell Company, known today as the world's largest privately owned farm. Primary crops include Pima cotton, [1] alfalfa hay, tomatoes, onions, and wheat, all cultivated on some 135,000 acres (550 km 2) mostly in Kings County, California.
Hurricane Helene shut at least two poultry plants in Georgia and North Carolina and twisted cotton crops in South Carolina in blows to U.S. food and fiber production, company and agriculture ...
Boston is located at (30.7926, -83.7907 According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.7 km 2 ), all land. It is 107 miles east of Dothan, Alabama and 21 miles west of Valdosta .
Cotton was originally called "Mapleton", and under the latter name was founded in 1899. [2] The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the place in 1913 as the "Town of Cotton", with municipal corporate limits extending in a one-half mile radius from the central railroad depot. [3] The present name is after the local cotton growing industry. [2]