LeConte-Woodmanston Slave Cabin and Garden
Riceboro, GA, US / GA
Location Description
In its heyday during the early 1800s, Woodmanston Plantation covered more than 3,300 acres and was the largest inland rice plantation in Georgia. Louis LeConte came into possession of Woodmanston in 1810, and the garden he planted there gained fame throughout the United States and Europe. The plantation was abandoned in 1869, but a restoration of a 63.8-acre site was begun in the late 1970s as a project of The Garden Club of Georgia. The project, being carried on now by the LeConte-Woodmanston Foundation, is a work in progress that so far has resulted in the creation of a 1.5-acre botanical garden featuring plants that LeConte might have grown and a 1-mile nature trail along a network of rice dams. The garden contains more than 100 different plants, including beds of older varieties of camellias and roses. Several structures that were part of the plantation—a chicken coop, a garden shed, a smokehouse, and a slave cabin—have been re-created on the site.
Location Category
- GARDENS - [general]
- HOUSES - [general]
- HOUSES - Period Homes / Historic
- HOUSES - Plantations
- LANDSCAPES - [general]
