Boys Estate (Elizafield Plantation)

Boys Estate (Elizafield Plantation) is a Georgia historical marker in Glynn County, dedicated 1957.

On Ocean Highway (US Hwy 17) north of GA Hwy 99 in Broadfield.

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Boys Estate, Georgia's town just for boys, is located one-half mile west of here, on a part of historic Elizafield Plantation. Elizafield, first the home of Dr. Robert Grant, later of his son, Hugh Fraser Grant, was one of the rich River Plantations of the early 19th century. It was cultivated intensively in rice and sugar cane, and the ruins of a large sugar mill built of tabby are still in evidence. In 1935, Cator Woolford gave this tract to Georgia for a State Park, and in 1945 it was made available by the Legislature for the establishment of Boys Estate.

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1864 · Colton's Georgia (1864) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1870 · Johnson's Florida (1870) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1921 · Darien, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Colton's Georgia (1864), 1864, covering the location of Boys Estate (Elizafield Plantation), with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Colton's Georgia (1864), 1864, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Boys Estate (Elizafield Plantation)

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