Lebanon Plantation

Lebanon Plantation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Main house at Lebanon Plantation
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Location	5745 Ogeechee Road, Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
Coordinates	32°00′22″N 81°12′38″W / 32.006°N 81.2105°W / 32.006; -81.2105
Area	76 acres (31 ha)
Built	1804, 1873
Architectural style	Plantation Plain
NRHP reference No.	79000704[1]
Added to NRHP	November 29, 1979

Lebanon Plantation is a state historic site located at 5745 Ogeechee Road in Savannah, Georgia. The site is over 500 acres (2.0 km²) consisting of a large estate granted to James Deveaux in 1756, and was named for the many cedar trees on the property. An additional 500 acres were granted to Phillip Delegal in 1758 and eventually became part of the plantation. The site was purchased by Joseph Habersham in 1802. Habersham sold it in 1804 to George W. Anderson who built the main house that was rebuilt and added on to after the American Civil War. Anderson's son, George Wayne Anderson, JR Commanded Fort McAllister in the Civil War, and after the fort fell, Lebanon became his prison and the headquarters of the Fifteenth Army Corps of the US Army.

After occupation, the main house at Lebanon was partially destroyed, and foreclosed upon in 1868. It was recovered by George W. Anderson in 1871. The extent of the damage to the original house is not known, but was rebuilt and repaired by April 23, 1873.^[2] Anderson later divided the property and allowed French immigrants to form a colony called L'Esperance. They planted and cultivated vineyards that did not succeed. In 1916, Savannah's Mills Bee Lane, father of the city's preservationist Mary Lane Morrison, purchased the plantation from the Anderson family heirs, and grew a new variety of orange, called the Savannah Satsuma. It was later owned by Morrison's son, Howard J. Morrison Jr. (1943–2019), and his wife, Mary Reynolds Morrison,^[3] the third generation of the Lane–Morrison family to continuously own the property.^[4]

Lebanon remains a working plantation today, much in the same manner it has for over two centuries.