Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation, along with the displays at the Hofwyl-Broadfield Historic Site, is the most complete look at life on a Georgia rice plantation anywhere in the state. This Google map shows the layout of the plantation and some of the thousands of acres of rice fields cultivated by over 300 slaves during the pre-Civil War plantation culture on Georgia’s coast. ++ the map and click on “Satellite” view.

No one lived in more refinement than the Southern rice planters. Nowhere is their life better documented than Hofwyl-Broadfield. No one worked under worse conditions than the rice slaves. And nowhere is their life better remembered than this plantation. (more…)