Savannah River Plantations: Savannah Writers' Project Unknown - 1972

Orig. pub. Savannah 1947. Reprinted 1972, 1983. Print on Demand Edition 2009. (xxxix), 475, XVIII pp., new intro, index, maps Originally written as a series of monographs on outstanding Chatham County plantations, this work turned out to be, under the sponsorship of the WPA and the Georgia Historical Society, a complete history of the great plantations of the area around Savannah. Plantations discussed are: Causton's Bluff, Deptford, Brewton Hill, Mulberry Grove, Richmond Oakgrove, Drakies, Colerain, Whitehall, Rae's Hall, Brampton, Hermitage, and Royal Vale. The land involved is bordered on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the north by the Savannah River, and on the south and west by the Ogeechee River. This is a reprint of the 1947 edition to which has been added as an introductory essay, "Plantation Development in Chatham County," from the December 1938 issue of The Georgia Historical Quarterly. Reviewers have cited this volume as having a "usefulness which extends to students of the plantation… Leer más

Spartanburg, S. C.: The Reprint Company., 1983. 2nd Edition. hard cover. Fine/No jacket. Spartanburg, S. C.: The Reprint Company. 1983 475pp. xviiipp. Hard bound. A fine copy. Compiledand written by the Savannah Unit of the Federal Writers Project under the Works Progress Administration. Originaly published by The Georgia Historical Society in 1947 in an edition of 300 copies. Republished in 1972 and 1983.S005.