Myrtle Grove Plantation | |
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Former names | Folly Farm |
General information | |
Architectural style | Antebellum architecture |
Location | Richmond Hill, Georgia, U.S. |
Address | Old Hardwick Road |
Coordinates | 31°53′04″N 81°14′44″W / 31.8843427°N 81.2454178°W |
Completed | 1849 | (plantation house only)
Owner | Buck Meeks John Meeks |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 2 |
Myrtle Grove is a historic plantation in Richmond Hill, Bryan County, Georgia, United States.
American Revolutionary War hero Nathanael Greene was gifted a "Myrtle Grove plantation near Savannah from the citizens of Georgia" for his services as major general of the Continental Army. [1]
The plantation house was built in 1849, in the antebellum style, by Union Army brigadier general Richard Arnold as wedding gift for his daughter. [2]
During the 1920s and 1930, the house was owned by Pennsylvania native and district attorney Samuel Pennington Rotan. [2] After his death in January 1930, his widow, Allethaire Chase Rotan, continued to live there. [2] The house was renamed Folly Farm by the Rotans, after their former residence in Abington, Pennsylvania, [3] but was later returned to its original Myrtle Grove name after the property on which the house stands. [2] [4]
It has been owned since 1964 by brothers Walter (Buck) [5] and John Meeks, [6] and has been used as a filming location for over ten movie and television productions, including Glory (1989), The Underground Railroad (2021), Emperor (2020) and The Crickets Dance (2020). [7] [8] It was its appearance in Birth of a Nation (2016) that increased its popularity, however. [9]
Myrtle Grove Plantation | |
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| |
Former names | Folly Farm |
General information | |
Architectural style | Antebellum architecture |
Location | Richmond Hill, Georgia, U.S. |
Address | Old Hardwick Road |
Coordinates | 31°53′04″N 81°14′44″W / 31.8843427°N 81.2454178°W |
Completed | 1849 | (plantation house only)
Owner | Buck Meeks John Meeks |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 2 |
Myrtle Grove is a historic plantation in Richmond Hill, Bryan County, Georgia, United States.
American Revolutionary War hero Nathanael Greene was gifted a "Myrtle Grove plantation near Savannah from the citizens of Georgia" for his services as major general of the Continental Army. [1]
The plantation house was built in 1849, in the antebellum style, by Union Army brigadier general Richard Arnold as wedding gift for his daughter. [2]
During the 1920s and 1930, the house was owned by Pennsylvania native and district attorney Samuel Pennington Rotan. [2] After his death in January 1930, his widow, Allethaire Chase Rotan, continued to live there. [2] The house was renamed Folly Farm by the Rotans, after their former residence in Abington, Pennsylvania, [3] but was later returned to its original Myrtle Grove name after the property on which the house stands. [2] [4]
It has been owned since 1964 by brothers Walter (Buck) [5] and John Meeks, [6] and has been used as a filming location for over ten movie and television productions, including Glory (1989), The Underground Railroad (2021), Emperor (2020) and The Crickets Dance (2020). [7] [8] It was its appearance in Birth of a Nation (2016) that increased its popularity, however. [9]