Woodmanston Site

The Woodmanston Site, located southwest of Riceboro, Georgia off Barrington Road, is a historic site which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]

Woodmanston Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Southwest of Riceboro, Georgia off Barrington Rd.
Coordinates	31.697778°N 81.473056°W / 31.697778; -81.473056
Area	93.2 acres (37.7 ha)
Built	c.1810
NRHP reference No.	73000626[1]
Added to NRHP	June 18, 1973

The site is gated, but visitors may enter the site by appointment.

Woodmanston was the plantation house of the Le Conte Plantation or Woodmanston Plantation, a rice plantation started by John Eaton LeConte, Sr. The plantation was developed in Bull Town Swamp, a "typical backwater and cypress swamp" which is a tributary to the South Newport River which in turn opens into Sapelo Sound. The site of the house was on a knoll above the tidal area and was, in 1972, still identifiable by the presence of a "few remaining hardwoods, flowering bushes and two palms." A botanical garden on the property, developed by his son Louis, became internationally known.[2]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Marilyn Pennington (May 15, 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Woodmanston Site / Le Conte Plantation". National Park Service. Retrieved August 24, 2017. With six photos from 1972.