Early Hill Plantation
Built around 1820 on a ridge between Richland and Beaverdam creeks, Early Hill was the Greek Revival plantation house of Joel Early, Jr., brother of Georgia governor Peter Early and, unusually for his class, the first Georgian to free and resettle enslaved people in Liberia. Generations later the grand house slipped into quiet decline, eventually serving a stint as a bed and breakfast before falling silent again behind its old shade trees. Local lore holds that a young daughter of the family was killed when a heavy branch broke loose in the front yard, and that she never truly left. Visitors claim to glimpse the child swinging from that very tree in the small hours, the seat drifting back and forth on a windless night, while others speak of a woman brushing her hair before an upstairs mirror and a figure rocking on the porch. The house stands privately owned today, its tragedy folded into the pasture quiet that surrounds it.
📍 Lickskillet Rd., 0.5 mi NE of US 278, Greensboro, GA 30642, Greensboro, GA · Get directions