Glen Echo is a historic

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near Ellabell,

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. The house was built circa 1773 and is an early example of Plantation Plain style. Records show that the land of Glen Echo Plantation was granted in the colonial era through a king's grant to a member of the Bird family. It was placed on the

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in 1978.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) Houses completed in 1773 Houses in Bryan County, Georgia Plantation houses in Georgia (U.S. state) National Register of Historic Places in Bryan County, Georgia {{BryanCountyGA-NRHP-stub

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