Myrtle Grove is a historic plantation in Richmond Hill, Bryan County, Georgia, United States.
American Revolutionary War hero Nathanael Greene was gifted a "Myrtle Grove plantation near Savannah from the citizens of Georgia" for his services as major general of the Continental Army.
[1] The plantation house was built in 1849, in the antebellum style, by Union Army brigadier general Richard Arnold as wedding gift for his daughter.
[2] During the 1920s and 1930, the house was owned by Pennsylvania native and district attorney Samuel Pennington Rotan.
[2][4] It has been owned since 1964 by brothers Walter (Buck)[5] and John Meeks,[6] and has been used as a filming location for over ten movie and television productions, including Glory (1989), The Underground Railroad (2021), Emperor (2020) and The Crickets Dance (2020).