Hermitage Plantation

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The Hermitage Plantation (1830), outside of Savannah, was owned by the French settler the Marquis de Montalet. Architect Charles Cluskey designed the house. Handmade bricks made at the plantation in the 1840s can be seen in some Savannah houses.

Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

Hermitage Plantation

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