Hofwyl-Broadfield Rice Plantation

Meandering through the southern states made me want to want to see a plantation.  We spoke with another tourist when we were in Savannah, and she recommended the Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation. 

From their web page:

"This beautiful plantation represents the history and culture of Georgia’s rice coast. In the early 1800s, William Brailsford of Charleston carved a rice plantation from marshes along the Altamaha River. The plantation and its inhabitants were part of the genteel low country society that developed during the antebellum period. While many factors made rice cultivation increasingly difficult in the years after the Civil War, the family continued to grow rice until 1913.

The enterprising siblings of the fifth generation at Hofwyl-Broadfield resolved to start a dairy rather than sell their family home. The efforts of Gratz, Miriam and Ophelia Dent led to the preservation of their family legacy. Ophelia was the last heir to the rich traditions of her ancestors, and she left the plantation to the state of Georgia in 1973."

The plantation was beautiful - beyond description:

 View of what was the rice fields:

and the homestead