Mallow Plantation

This plantation was a Crown grant to Captain John McIntosh, a British Army officer who served in Florida during the War of Jenkins' Ear against Spain. Later, when this officer went into Indian territory, his brother, Captain Roderick (Rory) McIntosh, with their sister, Winnewood McIntosh, occupied the home that was built upon this bluff in the 1760s. After the American Revolution, Mallow became the property of Captain William McIntosh, a son of Captain John. He, too, was a British Army officer, and was the father of the Lower Creek Indian Chief, General William McIntosh. Early in the 19th century, Mallow was purchased by tanner and planter Reuben King. The King family, as well as enslaved and free laborers, were living here during the Civil War when, on November 7, 1862, US forces anchored a gunboat in the nearby Sapelo River and raided Mallow and surrounding plantations.