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| Name: | Leconte-Woodmanston Foundation | | | | | About Us: | LeConte's Woodmanston Rice Plantation, part of
the National Register of Historic Places, is located in
Liberty County, Georgia. Home of the LeConte
family, of Riceboro, Georgia, some of American's
most prolific scientists. This 18th and 19th century
rice plantation was one of the largest in Liberty
County, located in historic Bulltown Swamp, a
blackwater swamp ecosystem peculiar to the
coastal plains. Its unique inland swamp, gravity
flow system of irrigation was seldom used after
1820. Today the LeConte-Woodmanston
Foundation is restoring approximately 64 acres of
the original 3,300 acre plantation, centered around
the 1838 homesite, which contained the botanical
gardens, and the rice fields in the heart of historic
Bulltown Swamp.
Open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm
Closed December 18 through February 14,
Thanksgiving and Easter.
February through April, call the site for road
conditions. Heavy rains may wash out the main
road.
Admission $2.00 per person.
| | | | | Website: | http://www.hist.armstrong.edu/publichist/LeConte/leconte-home.htm | | | | | Contact: | Staff
- phone: (912) 884-6500 |
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about the CGEP, go to Partners or
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