The remains of this
antebellum-era plantation contain two surviving
slave cabins, which were part of a set of four built before 1833. Among the better examples of surviving slave cabins in the
South, they are composed of
tabby, a cement consisting of lime, water, and crushed oyster shells. The cabins have built-in windows and a central chimney.
James Hamilton Couper, namesake of the owner and manager of the plantation, was an
architect and a builder. He designed and built the cabins to house the slaves who served in the plantation's main house. Utilizing a duplex plan to house more than one family, the cabins were originally part of a planned community of slave dwellings. The Hamilton Plantation and Gasciogne Bluff were sold after the
Civil War to
Anson Dodge and the Georgia Land and Lumber Company of New York in 1874 to erect lumber mills. The Cassina Garden Club owns the cabins and offers tours on Wednesday mornings in June through August. The cabins are near Arthur J. Moore Drive. ==See also==