Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation State Historic Site

Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation, between Brunswick and Darien, is the last surviving rice plantation of coastal Georgia and is run today as a state historic site. Georgia State Parks offers Ghosts and Legends of Hofwyl-Broadfield walking tours on select weekend nights, ending with a lantern tour of the house. Guests hear about five generations of plantation owners, the African Americans who worked the rice fields, and recent ghostly encounters. The best-known story is of a little boy born in 1882 who died of croup at four and a half in the house and is sometimes seen on the porch steps, with one couple reporting him at the foot of their bed. The stories are visitor and staff lore, set beside the site's documented, and sometimes painful, history.