Plantation Peopleof Houston County, Georgia

The 1821 land lottery act, Southern Recorder, May 22, 1821View original page

The Joseph Tooke house at Hayneville: a two-story house with a columned portico, behind a stone wall with a gate and a circular drive. — Joseph Tooke house. A Land So Dedicated, 1976.

The Joseph Tooke house burned in 1883, and by 1934 only its stone wall was left. Today it’s all gone, and most of the county’s plantations have faded the same way. Through records, maps, and memory, this site gathers the people who built, cultivated, and inhabited the land.

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What you’ll find here

Documented PlantationsThe houses, the families who built them and what became of them.
Families and FarmsEvery family found so far, from Hollywood-style plantations to small farms, down to the crops they grew.
Enslaved PeopleInterviews with Frank DuHart and Mose Davis, both born into slavery, and the records that name others.
CensusThe 1850 and 1860 slave and farm schedules, linked to the original pages.
MediaA mother’s 1863 letter from near Buzzard Roost, Alfre Woodard’s Who Do You Think You Are? episode, and more.