Pebble Hill Plantation
Historic house in Georgia, United States
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Pebble Hill Plantation is a plantation and museum located near Thomasville, Georgia. The plantation is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Pebble Hill Plantation | |
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  Location within Georgia  Location within the United States | |
| Nearest city | Thomasville, Georgia |
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| Coordinates | 30.78022°N 84.06386°W |
| Area | 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) |
| Built | 1934 |
| Architect | Abram Garfield |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Classical Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 90000146[1] |
| Added to NRHP | February 23, 1990 |
History
The plantation was established in the 1820s, when Thomas Jefferson Johnson built the first house.[2][3] After his death, the plantation was inherited by his daughter, Julia Ann, and her husband, John H. Mitchell.[2] They hired English architect John Wind to design a new mansion.[2][3] The people enslaved by the family grew cotton, tobacco and rice.[2]
The plantation was purchased by Howard Melville Hanna in 1896.[2] It was passed on to his daughter Kate in 1901,[3] who turned it into a hunting estate.[2] After the main house burned down in 1934, architect Abram Garfield designed the new mansion, completed in 1936.[2][3] After Kate's death, the plantation was inherited by her daughter, Elizabeth "Pansy" Ireland.[2]
Through the Pebble Hill Foundation endowed by Pansy Ireland, the plantation is open to the public.[2]
The Pebble Hill Plantation Film Collection at the University of Georgia's Brown Media Archives is thought to contain the earliest known moving image recording of Georgia, dating to 1917.[4]
See also
- Ochlocknee Missionary Baptist Church, a church founded by local enslaved people in 1848, originally located on the outskirts of Pebble Hill Plantation
