Pebble Hill Plantation

Pebble Hill Plantation near Thomasville, Georgia, began in the 1820s when Thomas Jefferson Johnson built its first house. After passing to his daughter Julia Ann and John H. Mitchell, the estate gained a new mansion designed by John Wind. In its plantation era, enslaved people were forced to grow cotton, tobacco, and rice, tying the property to the wider history of wealth and forced labor in southwest Georgia. Howard Melville Hanna bought Pebble Hill in 1896, and his daughter Kate later turned it into a hunting estate. After a 1934 fire, Abram Garfield designed the present mansion, completed in 1936, and the estate was ultimately preserved as a public historic site.

Georgia · United States