- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of Ophelia Dent at Hofwyl plantation house, Glynn County, Georgia, not after 1920]
- Date of Original:
- 1890/1920
- Subject:
- Plantations--Georgia--Glynn County
Women--Georgia--Glynn County
Architecture--Georgia--Glynn County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Glynn County, 31.21324, -81.4937
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Glynn County, before 1920. Hofwyl Plantation house before it was remodeled. Seen is Ophelia Dent.
2003/06/24: The Hofwyl plantation is now known as Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation. The same family lived in the house from 1804 to 1973. The plantation grew rice up until a little after the Civil War, when a lack of a cheap labor source made it difficult to cultivate rice. The family then started a dairy, which supplied residents in both Glynn and McIntosh counties with milk.
Ophelia Dent was the last member of the Dent family to live at the Hofwyl plantation. She left 1,200 acres of the property to the National Conservancy upon her death in 1973. The plantation was then turned over to the state of Georgia and is now a Georgia State Historic Site. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_gly185
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:gly185
- Rights Holder:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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