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Bonaventure Plantation
An October 1779 map by Antoine O'Connor, chief engineer of French Admiral-General Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing,[1] showing the location of Bonaventure
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LocationColonial Savannah, Province of Georgia
Coordinates32°02′37″N 81°02′42″W / 32.0435°N 81.0451°W / 32.0435; -81.0451
Completed1762; rebuilt after 1771
Destroyed1771 (fire); 1804 (fire)
Owner
  • 1762–c. 1764
    John Mullryne
  • c. 1764–1782
    Josiah Tattnall Sr.
  • 1782–1788
    John Habersham
  • 1788–1803
    Josiah Tattnall Jr.
  • 1817–1819
    Edward Tattnall, Harriet Tattnall & Josiah Tattnall III
  • 1819–1832
    Edward Tattnall & Josiah Tattnall III
  • 1832–1846
    Josiah Tattnall III
  • 1846–1853
    Peter Wiltberger
  • 1853–1907
    William Wiltberger

Bonaventure Plantation was a plantation founded in colonial Savannah, Province of Georgia, on land now occupied by Greenwich and Bonaventure cemeteries. The site was 600 acres (2.4 km2), including a plantation house and private cemetery, located on the Wilmington River, about 3.5 miles (6 kilometres) east of the Savannah colony.

  1. ^ Engineers of Independence: A Documentary History of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775-1783, Paul K. Walker; The Minerva Group, 2002

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