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Butler Island Plantation, Darien

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Butler Island Plantation is a former rice plantation located on Butler Island on the Altamaha River delta just South of Darien, Georgia. It was originally owned by Major Pierce Butler (1744–1822), and was also owned by Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston and then R. J. Reynolds Jr. The plantation is managed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
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  • By kountryrhea
    "Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it." The story behind the Butler Plantation is one of sadness for those that lived through it, We ALL need to learn and understand the past.....  more
    "Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it." The story behind the Butler Plantation is one of sadness for those that lived through it, We ALL need to learn and understand the past.....  more »
  • By 605stuarto
    Behind the plantation house is an excellent kayak launching platform. Up the river is a very nice paddle with a couple of eagle nests. Well worth a stop. 
    Behind the plantation house is an excellent kayak launching platform. Up the river is a very nice paddle with a couple of eagle nests. Well worth a stop.  more »
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  • By Wendy Tully
    Nice place. People need to throw fish back they don't keep. But very peaceful even if it is by why 17
  • By Davie Head
    We was on the bridge. Crabbing it was so nice full moon. The mosquitoes wasn't so bad.
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