The Burge Plantation, also known as the Burge Farm, is a historic farm estate in

Newborn, Georgia Newborn is a town in Newton County, Georgia, United States. The population was 696 at the 2010 census. History After hearing a sermon by 19th-century preacher Samuel Porter Jones, the town adopted the name "Newborn", after the concept of born aga ...

. It was added to the

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on May 11, 2000. It is generally bounded by GA 142, Cook Road, Morehouse Road and Sewell Road. Wiley Burge purchased the property in 1809 and farmed it with enslaved Africans. His son Thomas took over and his wife, Dolly Sumner (Lunt) Burge (a native of

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and from an abolitionist family) kept a journal from 1848 through 1879. Four sisters who were enslaved married and raised their children, also slaves, at Burge. Those who were enslaved at Burge were members of three intact families (one sister died and her husband married the fourth sister). The journal, including information about these families, has been published and included in the series ''Southern Voices from the Past: Women’s Letters, Diaries, and Writings''. It has also been depicted in

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for its depictions of the arrival of General

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's army on the property during the

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. The site is now a private club and part of the Covington Historic Homes Tour.Burge Plantation
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Burge Plantation website
{{Registered Historic Places Plantations in Georgia (U.S. state) Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) Houses in Newton County, Georgia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) National Register of Historic Places in Newton County, Georgia

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