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Pebble Hill archives
The Pebble Hill Plantation Archive area contains access to a myriad of articles, records and artifacts accessible to online patrons or by special appointment with our archivist. Listed below are links to a number of interesting articles located on our website. We invite you to visit these links and familiarize yourself with Pebble Hill. [Some links lead to pdf documents, so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open. If you do not have this reader, click here to download.]
If you don't see an area of interest or require further information about a particular topic, feel free to email our archivist, Ann Wade, awade@pebblehill.com.
General History of Pebble Hill
- History in Brief ( a short history of Pebble Hill) Read More
- Life on a Shooting Plantation, a Gilded Age Adventure for the Powerful and Prominent Part I Read More
Major Players in Pebble Hill's History
- Howard Melville Hanna (Mel), Life on a Shooting Plantation, a Gilded Age Adventure for the Powerful and Prominent Part II Read More
- Kate Benedict Ireland Harvey, Life on a Shooting Plantation, a Gilded Age Adventure for the Powerful and Prominent Part III Read More
- Elisabeth Ireland Poe (Pansy), Life on a Shooting Plantation, a Gilded Age Adventure for the Powerful and Prominent Part IV Read More
- Other Family Members
Pebble Hill Plantation
- Buildings
- The Log Cabin School. The first structure Kate built was a dog trot cabin. Read More
- Fire Engine House, which houses the carpenter's shop, the nurses station and the fire engine. Read More
- Grounds
- The Baby Big Oak. Pebble Hill is home to one of the trees grown from the last of Thomasville's Big Oak's acorns. Read More
- Gardens
- Ethelwyn Harrison designed the gardens at Pebble Hill Plantation. Read More
- Architect & Builders
- William J. Furze (1885-1979) master carpenter came from Cleveland to work on the Main House. Read More
Collections & Exhibits
- Fine Arts
- Audubon Still Amazes. It was Kate's interest in the local wildlife of south Georgia that led her to acquire 33 original Audubon prints. Read More
- Sporting Art Read More
- Aiden Lassell Ripley, watercolorist Read More
- Carriages
- The Phaeton. Fast, sporty and dangerous, what a carriage! Read More
- Furniture
Decorative Arts
- Culinary related objects
- PHP China Collection. PHP owns over 30 sets of dinner plates by the world's finest china manufacurers. Read More
- Lamps & Lanterns
- The Chippendale Lantern hanging from the dome above the main staircase. Read More
- Exhibits
Lifestyle
