Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Savannah physician and businessman wants to "restore" a 1,000-acre tract of marsh once used used for rice farming. The area, in ...

It’s known as the wiregrass region, this part of the South that takes in parts of southern Georgia, southeastern Alabama and the Florida panhandle. Travel its rolling topography and you’ll pass quail ...

DARIEN, Ga. (AP) — A man has been charged with starting a fire that destroyed a nearly century-old home on the site of a coastal Georgia rice plantation that's associated with the largest slave ...

On the northern end of Ossabaw Island, three former slave cabins sit in a perfect row—remains of a plantation that predates the Revolutionary War. Dan Elliott stands next to the cabins one morning, ...

JULIETTE, Ga. -- Jarrell Plantation has survived Civil War raids, typhoid fever epidemics and the boll weevil. But can it survive the budget cuts of Gov. Sonny Perdue (R)? This 1847 plantation in ...