The Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare, Ricegrower

In 1877, John Girardeau Legare of Adams Run, South Carolina, arrived in Darien on the Georgia tidewater. Legare managed Darien-area rice plantations, first at Generals Island, then at Champneys. Nearby was Butler’s Island, made famous by Fanny Kemble Butler in her antebellum Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation . Legare also served as the clerk of the city of Darien during the first three decades of the twentieth century, maintaining detailed records of public business and documenting