Rival landscapes of Georgia’s coastal plantations

Reconstructing the layout of a coastal Georgia Plantation: Applications of LiDAR

“…The utility of the publicly available LiDAR proved essential for this particular research and such a wide view reconstruction of the South End layout would not have been possible without it. For example, the utility of the information recorded within the historic documents was indispensable in providing useful context about enslaved labor and movement to different areas and agricultural fields within the plantation (see also Cochran 2021). The historic maps, although they depicted the South End after the plantation was abandoned depicted key markers to support the general location of structures, cultivated areas, and roads (see also Cochran 2021).…”