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Book details
  • Genre:HISTORY
  • SubGenre:United States / State & Local / South
  • Language:English
  • Pages:380
  • Hardcover ISBN:9798350959338

Richmond Hill & Bryan County, Georgia

A New History

by Buddy Sullivan

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Overview
A 300-year history of a coastal Georgia community focusing on colonial settlement, rice plantations, Civil War operations, and the Henry Ford influence from 1925 to 1950
Description
Bryan County is a community in the Georgia coastal low country with a rich history spanning two and a half centuries. Located just south of Savannah, the county has evolved through a succession of eras encompassing colonial settlement, antebellum rice culture, the ravages of civil war, economic growth through railroads and turpentine production centered on the county seat at Pembroke, and a twenty-five-year association with automotive magnate Henry Ford who developed multiple cultural and agricultural activities around the town that became present-day Richmond Hill. Author Buddy Sullivan has documented the historical, cultural, and much of the genealogical history of the pioneer families of Bryan County in this updated volume originally issued in 2000. It should be of value to anyone researching the history of the Georgia coastal region. As illustrated by the front cover, this book will be of special interest to those interested in the antebellum plantation culture embracing the rice planting technology of the low country, as well as the stories of the families associated with the "rice aristocracy" of the southeast Atlantic coast. This is the most comprehensive history of Bryan County, Georgia and its environs ever published.
About the author
BUDDY SULLIVAN is the author of 35 books and monographs about the history, culture, and ecology of coastal Georgia. Among other awards he is a recipient of the Governor's Medal in the Humanities from the Georgia Humanities Council in recognition of his literary and cultural contributions to the state. Sullivan's books include histories of McIntosh and Bryan counties and Sapelo Island, a history of the state of Georgia, and studies relating to the rice and timber economies of the low country in the nineteenth century. A comprehensive synthesis of Sullivan's research and writing developed over the last forty years is contained in his book, Low Country Historian, A Collective Omnibus, published by the author in 2023. Sullivan was a newspaper sports writer from 1971 to 1985 followed by eight years as editor of the Darien News. He was manager of the Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve from 1993 to 2013 and is now Senior Historian of the Coastal Georgia Historical Society and an independent writer and consultant residing on ancestral tidewater property at Cedar Point, McIntosh County. Sullivan's first edition of this volume about Bryan County was recognized in 2000 as the outstanding book of Georgia history for that year by the Georgia Historical Society.