File:The Hermitage plantation, Savannah, Georgia, 1900.jpg

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53522. The Hermitage, Savannah. Photochrom print by the Detroit Photographic Co., copyrighted 1900.

Built in 1850, these two brick buildings were the dwellings of two families who were among 201 enslaved African-Americans working at the nearly 400 acre Hermitage Plantation on the Savannah River in Chatham County just north of Savannah, Georgia. These families supplemented the meager food rations provided by the plantation owner by planting a garden behind the house. They also hunted game and caught fish in the Savannah River.

The plantation, owned by Henry McAlpin, had 52 similar buildings arranged in rectangular formation. Although some rice was grown there, the Hermitage was primarily an industrial plantation with steam-powered saw and planing mills, a rice barrel factory, and Savannah’s largest brick works, which produced more than 60 million bricks.
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