Birdsville Plantation, plantation in Jenkins County, Georgia, United States

Birdsville Plantation is a 50-acre property in Birdsville, Jenkins County, Georgia, with 10 contributing buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Its two-story main house, begun around 1789, has an inset front portico with four Corinthian columns, two projecting Italianate window bays on an otherwise flat facade, and at least three brick chimneys. The grounds hold a barn, privy, smoke house, old kitchen, well house, log building, apothecary, store, and Mr. Bird's house and office, plus a pecan grove and historic oaks.

Birdsville Plantation dates from about 1789, making it one of the few colonial-era plantations in the interior of Georgia. Its front appearance was created around 1847 under Henry Philip Jones, son of the original owner, who added Greek Revival and Italianate elements. The house survived Sherman's March to the Sea, reportedly spared because Union troops found the freshly dug graves of twins.

The property is a National Bicentennial Farm, a designation tied to continuous family farming across two centuries. Its outbuildings record daily operations: a cotton gin appears in photographs of the property, alongside a smoke house, an old kitchen, a well house, a log building, an apothecary and a store. The house and office of Mr. Bird also stand on the grounds.

The property is a 50-acre National Bicentennial Farm in Birdsville, Jenkins County, listed on the National Register in 1971 with 10 contributing buildings. The sources document no public tours, visitor hours or marked trails, so access to the main house, barn, privy, smoke house, old kitchen, well house, log building, apothecary, store and Bird office should be arranged in advance rather than assumed.

The story holds that Union troops began digging up freshly made graves at Birdsville looking for hidden silver, then stopped on finding the twin infants of the lady of the house, and the plantation was spared out of respect. The house is one of few colonial-era plantation houses in Georgia's interior.