
Pebble Hill archives
The Pebble Hill Plantation Archive area contains access to a myriad of articles, records and artifacts accessible to online patrons. 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
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