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Mulberry Grove Plantation State Historical Marker
- Mulberry Grove Plantation State
Historical Marker
- Located on U.S. 17 at the city hall in Port Wentworth,
Ga.
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MULBERRY GROVE PLANTATION
Mulberry Grove which is located
approximately 2 miles northeast from this marker is one of the
most historic of the old Savannah River plantations.
In early Colonial days mulberry
trees were cultivated at Mulberry Grove for use in Georgia's
silk industry. Later it became one of the leading rice plantations
of Georgia. At the end of the Revolution the plantation, which
had belonged to Lieutenant Governor John Graham, a Royalist,
was granted by the State of Georgia to major General Nathanael
Greene was a reward for his military services. General Greene
was residing at Mulberry Grove at the time of his death on June
12, 1786.
In 1793 Eli Whitney, who was the
tutor of the Greene children, invented the cotton gin at Mulberry
Grove. The following year a large ginning machine was erected
at the plantation. Its foundation still stands there.
023-39 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1956
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