Green, Mitchell J., Plantation

Mitchell J. Green began farming this land near Claxton in the late 1860s after returning from Civil War service. The family first lived in a two-room log cabin built in 1868, then built a two-story Plantation Plain house in 1878. That house has a central stair hall, two rooms on each side, Victorian porch woodwork, and original pine floors, mantels and hardware. Around it stand a commissary, smokehouse, syrup house, log corn cribs, a barn, a windmill, tenant houses and a tobacco barn on about 433 acres. Together they show how a self-sufficient plantation operated after the Civil War, with sheep, corn, oats, some cotton, molasses and cured meat produced for the family and seven tenant families. Green also served as postmaster of the community of Green from 1882 to 1904 and held several county offices. The plantation has stayed in the Green family, and the grouping is notable for how complete and well preserved it remains.