Robert Costain Beauchamp (1800-1884) was a farmer and businessman who served Hancock County in the state legislature from 1867-71 and eventually owned 5,000 acres of land there. He was one of the first men to introduce the plantation system of farming to Hancock County. His two-story brick house, of Georgian design, was built in 1842. The plantation was one of the first in Hancock County and was a self-sufficient community, with several kilns to make bricks for other buildings, a blacksmith shop, loomhouses, and a dairy.