The Plantation


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New Hope Plantation consists of approximately 250 acres of high land, the bulk of which is in the form of a pine tree farm, pecan groves and pastures.

The lower land which lies between New Hope Creek and Wally's Leg comprises some 850 acres and fronts over one mile on the Altamaha River. The plantation formerly consisted of rice fields with an extensive gridwork of some ten miles of drainage canals lined with old dikes. The last rice crop was planted just before the First World War and, after the war, gladiolas and narcissus were commercially grown in the fields until late 1920s.

A restored former overseer's home. Guales Legacy overlooks the dikes.