Bonaventure Plantation

Bonaventure Plantation
Bonaventure Plantation
	An October 1779 map by Antoine O'Connor, chief engineer of French Admiral-General Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing, showing the location of Bonaventure
General information
Location	Colonial Savannah, Province of Georgia
Coordinates	32.0435°N 81.0451°W
Completed	1762; rebuilt after 1771
Destroyed	1771 (fire); 1804 (fire)
Owner	1762–c. 1764; John Mullryne; c. 1764–1782; Josiah Tattnall Sr.; 1782–1788; John Habersham; 1788–1803; Josiah Tattnall Jr.; 1817–1819; Edward Tattnall, Harriet Tattnall & Josiah Tattnall III; 1819–1832; Edward Tattnall & Josiah Tattnall III; 1832–1846; Josiah Tattnall III; 1846–1853; Peter Wiltberger; 1853–1907; William Wiltberger;

Bonaventure Plantation was a plantation founded in colonial Savannah, Province of Georgia, on land now occupied by Greenwich and Bonaventure cemeteries. The site was 600 acres (2.4 km²), including a plantation house and private cemetery, located on the Wilmington River, about 3.5 miles (6 kilometres) east of the Savannah colony.

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