Early Hill Plantation
Early Hill is a Greek Revival plantation house built around 1820 on a ridge between Richland and Beaverdam creeks, home of Joel Early, Jr., brother of Georgia governor Peter Early and the first Georgian to free and resettle enslaved people in Liberia. The grand house later slipped into decline, serving a stint as a bed and breakfast before falling silent 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 on a windless night, while others speak of a woman brushing her hair before an upstairs mirror.
Privately owned today, its tragedy is folded into the pasture quiet.
📍 Lickskillet Rd., 0.5 mi NE of US 278, Greensboro, GA 30642, Greensboro, GA · Get directions