Wild Heron is a historic plantation house approximately 15 miles (24 km) south of Savannah, Georgia.

He paid 1168 pounds for Braddock's tract, the high price indicating the presence of a house on the property, and the English name was transferred to the American land.

Col. Harris fought in the Revolutionary War until 1781, when he was wounded at Etttaw Springs, dying shortly thereafter at Santee Hills.

In addition, the extensive high land acreage allowed for the growing of the South's king crop, cotton.

When MacLeod died just before the collapse of the Confederacy the so-called "Settlement Tract," on which the house was located, was a legacy to his son, Richard, who, followed by his descendants, owned it through the difficult intervening years until Shelby Myrick, Sr., purchased it in 1935.