Historical Marker

Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation Historic Site

Brunswick · Glynn County

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The Story

The last surviving rice plantation on the Georgia coast, Hofwyl passed through five generations before Ophelia Dent willed it to the state in 1973 as a preserved historic site.

About this site

Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation Historic Site is a historical marker in Brunswick, Glynn County. It is one of 121 historical markers documented in Glynn County, among 181 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 31.3073, -81.4583 near Brunswick. The nearest cataloged historic site is Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation State Historic Site (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Hopeton-on-the-Altamaha, Boys Estate, and If Trees Could Speak….

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

📍 31.3073, -81.4583 · Brunswick, Glynn County

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