It covered around 200 acres (81 ha), on land bounded by Old Louisville Road and the Ogeechee Canal[1] six miles to the west of the city.

[5] In 1782, during the Revolutionary War, Emistisiguo, chief of the local Upper Creek Indian tribe, attacked Anthony Wayne's camp at the plantation in the early hours of June 24.

He negotiated peace treaties with both the Creeks and the Cherokees, for which Georgia rewarded him with a large rice plantation.

The vault had been forced open, and the body (along with a silver plate that had been resting atop the coffin) was missing.

[9] Edward Telfair was initially interred in a vault at the plantation after his death in 1807, but his remains were moved to Bonaventure Cemetery later in the 19th century.