Out to the Plantation

(edit added today, at end)

On a recent trip to Savannah, we went to see Wormsloe.

This will complete my seven post series about Savannah. The first one was the visit to Savannah's big cemetery- Bonaventure. We also went to Forsyth Park and fountain, the Forsyth Mansion, Daytime Savannah, Savannah after dark, the statues, and today's visit to Wormsloe. You have to drive quite a way out of the city to get to the plantation.

This old plantation was built by Noble Jones, a carpenter who came to Georgia in 1733. The group he was with were the first settlers here from England. The ruins of Mr. Jones old tabby (lime, sand, crushed up oyster shells, and water) house are the oldest standing structure in  Savannah.  

Mr. Jones grew a little bit of everything here...corn, rice, indigo, even silkworms to try and produce silk! He was finally able to make a profit after 1749 by using enslaved people to grow the crops, including many kinds of fruits and vegetables. Later on, Wormsloe was a cotton plantation.

Coming in with me?

The entrance to the old plantation

I was totally fascinated with this place and it's history.
Added today:
the sun was setting when we arrived and the place quickly plunged into blackness. You can see I was lucky enough to catch a tad of the "blue hour" in some of the pictures, before it got dark. This place is way out in an area away from Savannah. There is nobody around! (we were the only people there) The only light was that one little thing hanging from a tree up there, that is it- that I remember. The pictures are not altered in any way shape or form, this is how they came out of my camera. Some are kind of weird, I blame the heat or the weird lighting, LOL! I did see the very clear reflection on the ground of a cross, next to me, on my left, on the ground, I liked that. I'm still trying to figure out what part of the gate made that reflection. I never even noticed that until today, LOL