A Savannah physician and businessman wants to "restore" a 1,000-acre tract of marsh once used used for rice farming. The area, in Bryan County near the Chatham County border, is encircled by the ...

Jan. 25—EDITOR'S NOTE — Second in a series on southwest Georgia plantations. ALBANY — We called them "carpetbaggers" — people from the north who came south after the Civil War to profit from ...

Step back in time as we explore a 173-year-old cotton plantation in rural Georgia. With more than twenty original buildings still standing, this property offers a rare look at how early Southern ...

Months after a historic election in Georgia, the state passed legislation giving lawmakers more control over elections and imposing new voting restrictions. The legislation was signed by Georgia Gov.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez married in Vegas in July 2022. But in August, the couple had a big three-day celebration at Affleck’s massive estate in Riceboro, Georgia. While the pair seemed very ...

When she realized it was the Callaway Plantation in Washington, Georgia, “I gasped,” she said. Generations of her family worked there dating back to slavery, Wallace said. More recently, her father ...

On the northern end of Ossabaw Island, three former slave cabins sit in a perfect row—remains of a plantation that predates the Revolutionary War. Dan Elliott stands next to the cabins one morning, ...

COUNT BIRDS WITH CLEVELAND: Janell Cleveland will lead participants on a Birding Walk throughout Pebble Hill Plantation on Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 9 a.m. (Submitted Photo) THOMASVILLE- Join the ...

Sometimes America’s legacy of white supremacy is hiding in plain sight, literally. When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a hastily passed voter suppression law that many are calling the new, new Jim ...

Excerpts from the 1863 publication by Mortimer Thomson, What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation. . . The largest sale of human chattels that has been made in Star-Spangled America for ...