White Hall Plantation Chimney Ruins, circa 1920

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Artifact Overview

Henry Ford purchased vast amounts of land around present-day Richmond Hill, Georgia, beginning in the 1920s. Here, Ford dabbled in agricultural experimentation and in the late 1930s built a winter residence. Scattered on the 85,000 acres of Ford property were several pre-Civil War plantation houses -- or their ruins. The house at White Hall burned in 1914.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1920

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.51

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 4.875 in
Width: 3.5 in