The Three Chimneys, originally known as the Swamp Settlement, was a British period sugar plantation established circa 1768 on part of 20,000 acres granted in 1764 by King George III to Richard Oswald, a wealthy and influential Scottish merchant. The Swamp Settlement covered 300 acres and was the first successful and oldest British sugar plantation of its kind in North America. Its sugar making facility was a long brick structure with four separate furnaces feeding two chimneys that disappeared long ago, while the rum distillery had two furnaces feeding one chimney that stood until 1997. Richard Oswald later served as the British representative for the Treaty of Paris in 1783, which ended the Revolutionary War, and helped secure terms favorable to the United States of America, including the Mississippi River as its western boundary. These ruins were restored in 2007.