Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation, Rice plantation site in Glynn County, Georgia, United States

Hofwyl-Broadfield is a state historic site in Glynn County, Georgia, on the Altamaha River. Its two-story white wooden main house, built in the early 1850s, has a one-story porch with a red metal roof, green-framed screens, and brick steps. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources manages 1,268 acres of land and 696 acres of marsh.

William Brailsford bought the land in 1806 and renamed it Broadfield, building a rice operation of over 7,000 acres worked by more than 350 enslaved West Africans, mostly from Senegal and Sierra Leone. His son-in-law Dr. James M. Troup, brother of Governor George Troup, inherited it and held 357 enslaved people and 7,300 acres at his death in 1849. Rice was grown until 1915, when it became unprofitable.

The site shows how European landowners and enslaved African people shaped coastal life through shared labor. Their stories remain woven into the landscape and buildings that visitors walk through today.

The property can be explored on foot with guided tours of the main house and walking paths through former rice fields. Visitors should wear comfortable shoes since the ground in the wetland areas is uneven and can be muddy.

Ophelia Dent, the last of five generations of her family at the house, died in 1973 and left the property to the state of Georgia. The state took over in 1976, the year the site joined the National Register of Historic Places, and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources now manages 1,268 acres of land and 696 acres of marsh.