Butler Island (Georgia)

Butler Island is a river island in Ware County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.[1]

Butler Island was named after its original owner, Pierce Butler (1744–1822) a U.S. Senator and Founding Father from South Carolina.[2] Pierce Butler's Butler Island Plantation once occupied the entire island, where he kept hundreds of slaves.[3]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Butler Island (Georgia)
  2. ↑ Krakow, Kenneth K. (1975). Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins (PDF). Macon, GA: Winship Press. p. 29. ISBN 0-915430-00-2.
  3. ↑ "People & Events Butler Island". PBS. Retrieved 4 April 2018.

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