- Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
- Title:
- Richmond Hill Plantation, Cherry Hill Lettuce Shed, East of Richmond Hill on Ford Neck Road, Richmond Hill, Bryan County, GA
- Creator:
- Historic American Buildings Survey
- Contributor to Resource:
- Ford, Henry,
Brockington and Associates, contractor
Calloway, Deborah, transmitter
Diener, David, photographer
Butler, Scott, historian
Diener, David, historian
Diener, David, delineator - Date of Original:
- 1933/9999
- Subject:
- Richmond Hill (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
sheds
barns
agriculture
storage
building deterioration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bryan County, Richmond Hill, 31.93827, -81.30344
- Medium:
- photographs
field notes - Type:
- Still Image
Text - Description:
- Photo(s): 22 | Data Page(s): 7 | Photo Caption Page(s): 2
Significance: The Cherry Hill Lettuce Shed was used to pack lettuce grown in the adjacent Cherry Hill Marsh. Iceberg lettuce was the most successful of Henry Ford's experimental crops.
Survey number: HABS GA-2348-G
Building/structure dates: ca. 1940 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1950 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78000966 - Local Identifier:
- HABS GA-2348-G
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/ga0908/
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Original Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
- Holding Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
-
