{"nrhp_refnum":"79000704","name":"Lebanon Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Savannah","address_restricted":false,"city":"Savannah","county":"Chatham County","state":"GA","lat":32.00753415950007,"lon":-81.21158188529847,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-11-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture","Social History","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A working plantation complex southwest of Savannah in Chatham County, Georgia, near the Little Ogeechee River. Its main house has an early-nineteenth-century core, rebuilt after the Civil War (an 1873 newspaper reported it rebuilt) and enlarged from 1919 into the 1920s.","why_significant":"The plantation is significant in agriculture, architecture, local history and historical archaeology. It has operated continuously for over 220 years and is where the Savannah Satsuma orange was developed. Its main house shows organic architectural growth, and the site served as Federal Fifteenth Army Corps headquarters during the Civil War.","narrative":"Lebanon Plantation is a working farm and house complex southwest of Savannah, beside the Little Ogeechee River. Its land was granted in 1756, and by 1804 it held houses, outbuildings and rice fields. During the Civil War the property served as headquarters for the Federal Fifteenth Army Corps, and its buildings were badly damaged. The family mansion was reported rebuilt in 1873. Mills B. Lane bought the estate in 1916 and grew a variety of orange later marketed as the Savannah Satsuma. The house is a raised, two-story center-hall dwelling with a hip roof. A double veranda with paired Tuscan columns and a porte-cochere were added from 1919, followed by a north wing around 1927. A 1979 tornado destroyed the veranda's upper story. The estate is valued for over two centuries of continuous agricultural use, for the layered growth of its main house, and for possible archaeological remains of earlier buildings.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Raised Plantation Plain core with Greek Revival-era origins and Neo-Classical twentieth-century veranda","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and used seasonally as a working plantation and private residence. A tornado on April 9, 1979 destroyed the upper veranda story and part of the roof; repairs were not finalized.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.121889-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/79000704.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000704/9c00827beb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000704/9c00827beb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Kevinakling","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LebanonPlantationHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevinakling</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LebanonPlantationHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207324","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55316039"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/chatham-county/lebanon-plantation-79000704/"}