BGuthrie Photos: GA -- Brunswick -- Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation SHS

GA -- Brunswick -- Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation SHS:

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1. HOFWYL_050309_037.JPG: The white structure is a cooler. Next to it is a laundry hanging area.
2. HOFWYL_050309_052.JPG: This tree is over a hundred years old. It grows very slowly.
3. HOFWYL_050309_086.JPG: Coastal Prairie/Brackish Marsh: There are a variety if wetland habitats found in Georgia's coastal plain, such as brackish marsh, freshwater marsh, salt marsh, riverine swamps, isolated ponds and open water habitats. The brackish marsh occurs in areas where freshwater and saltwater combine. Brackish marsh occurs at the mouths of large rivers such as the Altamaha where large quantities of freshwater from the interior of Georgia mix with the saltwater of the estuary. Daily tidal fluctuations aid in mixing these waters. Tides are a predictable and measurable rise and fall of water, due to the gravitational pull of the moon. Georgia has the greatest fluctuations of tides on the entire East Coast of the U.S. Brackish marshes are typically vegetated by a continuous cover of black needlerush, giant cordgrass, and giant entgrass. An abundance of wildlife is known to occur in these marshes such as raccoons, swamp rabbits, fiddler crabs, alligators and birds such as clapper rail, white ibis, glossy ibis, soras and marsh wrens. The marshes here at Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation also have a high concentration of feral pigs which are very destructive to this habitat.
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Description of Subject Matter: In 1806, William Brailsford and his son-in-law James M. Troup acquired a chunk of virgin cyprus swamp land along the Altahama River. Brailsford named his rice plantation "Broadfield". The house that was standing here burned down in the 1840's. In the early 1850's, Ophelia Troup and her husband, George Dent, built a new house here. Dent added the name "Hofwyl" to it after the name of the school he attended in Switzerland.
Until the outbreak of the Civil War, it was a fairly successful rice plantation, employing lots of slaves. The Civil War ruined many of the plantations because the white owners couldn't afford the non-slave labor and didn't have the skills themselves to grow the rice properly. Large chunks of the estate were sold off to pay taxes and by the 1880's, when James Dent took over management of the plantation, Holwyl-Broadfield's wealth was gone. Rice production continued but it was still in debt when he died in 1913. His son Gratz established a dairy which was operated until 1942 by his sisters, Marian and Ophelia Dent. Dairy production, by that time, required expensive equipment to pasteurize and process and they couldn't afford that so they stopped. But by that point, the farm was solvent.
When Ophelia died in 1973, she left the estate to the Nature Conservancy which conveyed it to the state of Georgia. The house, which you're not allowed to photograph inside (they said there was some worry that thieves would take a tour to catalog the goods to come back later and steal), contains antiques dating back to 1790.
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2005 photos: Equipment this year: I used four cameras -- two Fujifilm S7000 cameras (which were plagued by dust inside the lens), a new Fujifilm S5200 (nice but not great and I hated the proprietary xD memory chips), and a Canon PowerShot S1 IS (returned because it felt flimsy to me). I gave my Epson camera to my catsitter. Both of the S7000s were in for repairs over Christmas. Trips this year: Florida (for Lotusphere), a driving trip down south (seeing sites in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia), Williamsburg, and Chicago. Number of photos taken this year: 147,000.
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