History
New Hope Plantation lies between the west bank of the South Altamaha River and the Coastal Highway (U.S. Route 17) midway between Brunswick and Darien, Georgia.

This 1,100 acre tract is all that remains of a Crown grant made in 1763 to Henry Laurens, a prominent Charlestonian who was later to succeed John Hancock as president of the Continental Congress in 1777 and who was one of the negotiators of the peace treaty that granted independence to the thirteen states in 1783. General Laurens obtained control of vast acreages of South Altamaha river lands and named it New Hope Plantation. At one time New Hope included what is now Hofwyl Plantation. Hofwyl was separated from New Hope shortly after 1804 and subsequently acquired by the Brailsford-Dent family who retained it for over 160 years. Hofwyl adjoins the north boundary of New Hope and is now a Georgia State Historic Site.