I used to live real close to there. Had a senile old lady as my neighbor at one time. Everytime they were doing blasting on the freeway, she would call me and ask if that was yankee canons coming down the road. I had to assure her that we were still holding on to Richmond.
A good friend of mine from Morgan County told me in the 1950s he walked through Casulon, the place was abandon & opened a trunk in the attic & remembers seeing a Confederate uniform inside.
The house itself looks SUPER SIMILAR to my great grandfathers house that was also in Walton county off highway 278 in Social Circle. Everyone called it the “Butler Place/Plantation” He lived there in the 1930’s-1940’s and farmed various crops. But moved sometime in the early/late 50’s. Coincidently, someone set fire to the house on Halloween night in 1974.
How very sad. We had a similar situation with a Greek revival plantation between Dublin and Cochran, Ga. It had been converted into a restaurant and one night it burned beyond repair. It still feels awkward looking at the grand oaks that still stand.
Wonder if anyone has done any kind of metal detecting there? If the place was built in 1824, there could be some amazing things hidden under the ground, etc. Coins, broken dishes, knobs from furniture and grand doors, jewelry, etc.
Places always remind me of death camps. No justice, no respite. Ten thousand acres watered with how many peoples blood. How many people had to catch hell for that boxwood garden.Unsettling
Wow thank u for sharing, I love history and places such as this are interesting to learn of .I can't wait to visit the plantations down there take a tour .I hope u kept that brochure lol wow !!!
I live in jasper county ga on Davidson road off barbridge rd there's some remains of an old probably 130 year old house but only the stone work is left its pretty cool
I was thinking the same thing. I would be surprise if there isn't a burial ground somewhere on the grounds. Maybe there are even two cemeteries: one of the for the family that owned the plantation, one for the slaves.
@@ihave35cents95 I can believe that. It wouldn't surprise me if the land was sold of bit by bit to pay for taxes and such. I'm reminded of "A Streetcar Named Desire" in which Blanche tells her sister Stella's husband Stanley about Belle Reeve plantation where their family had lived and how it had been reduce until, as I recall there was just the house "...and a cemetery to which all but Stella and I have retreated"
@ I have an old plantation home outside of Charleston, the family, plots and slave plots are 3 miles down the road. The house went from 3500 acres to my 43
@@ihave35cents95 Well at least you still have it and 40 something acres is ok too I lived in N Charleston for awhile, the subdivision we were in and the surrounding ones were built on an old plantation. I was taking a long walk and ran across a historical marker. I can't remember the man's name, but the land was granted to him for his Rev War service; I think by Washington.
Hi, Josh - it didn't burn to the ground. Someone finished it off in recent years evidently. I have photos of a trip out there in the late 2000s, prior to 2010 and toured the inside. We made a few calls about it, since the remains were on the market. We went back within a week or two and suddenly the mantels were missing. We've always wondered if the interest shown to try to buy it, rustled someone out of the "bushes" to go get a few pieces before a possible owner change. Do you know all the stories behind the fire? There are many. Thanks for the video. I'd love to show you my pics one day.
@@carmineredd1198 What an insensitive person you are. If it was an enormous plantation there WERE graves, possibly a fenced family plot with slaves buried outside the fence line. They are everywhere in Georgia.
I’m sure you are right, Phillis. Many people were buried at home, but probably more in a church yard. That is, if you were a member of the church back then. At least that is the pattern I’ve found in my ancestors.
Do you know anything about the house that lies a little ways behind the plantation house? I found a lot of old magazines and other things dating around 2004. I also found a piece of mail with the residents name, but can’t find any other information.
I've heard stories of a very wealthy man who found out that some of his ancestors were enslaved on this plantation and had it burned down after he couldn't buy it.
@@WAlkONRebel 💙🙏💙 Thanks 4 telling the truth - true story. Wonder where the slave-cabins 4 the enslaved people are on the property? Might be a family cemetery (like in other places) on the property?💙🙏💙🌹💙🌹💙🌹💙🌹💙😷
What a shame to loose old homes like this, someone should get permission to salvage the remaining wood from her and make some cool sellable furniture pieces signed from the caulson plantation! Ive done this with a 1830 house in union point , ga
Historic plantation, how many black bodies are buried on this land. There are way too many nameless slaves that suffered. Bought, sold, hung, beaten, breed, raped! Souls CAN'T be at rest here. This place is historic alright.
Hey I commented before do you know if this property is for sale I’m thinking of re-building a replica of the house in the same spot and restoring the rest of the property
Be very careful when you buy an older property that has a lot of dark history. And slavery was indeed dark history. You might get more than you bargained for!👻👻👻
Look at all the reusable wood, windows, fence, fieldstones. Probably all gone now, though. If there was some left, and I could get permission, I would love to come over there, salvage some, and have my husband use his metal detector on the grounds. Do you know who owns the property? I live in Ellijay, Ga. but it would be worth the trip just for metal detecting.
Youth Pastor tried to scare you on Halloween night? Christians aren’t supposed to be giving Halloween attention. What kind of Church were you attending?🤷♂️
It looks like it had 8 fireplaces. Places were so well built ! And someone could clean up the garden and it would be beautiful . Thank you for the tour . I will send this to my Mother .
@@schorearush817 agreed! The atrocities that happened at plantations like this. It makes me want to vomit when people talk about beauty in these places. I can’t see any redeeming value here. People should stop romanticizing the old south. Ironically I used to know a guy back in the 90s that told me his family basically squatted here in the 1970s.
I have Southern roots in my mom’s family history- Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson. I can only imagine what life was like on a Southern Plantation, ( I’m not entirely convinced that GWTW was a perfect depiction, ... lol 😂) but just to wonder what it was like for my Old South relatives . This place was probably a beautiful one in it’s day . Are there any pictures of what it looked like before it was ravaged by fire ? ( my husband used to be a Firefighter, and he would tell me the “ older the structure, the more likely it’ll come completely down in a fiery inferno “ .) Thanks for showing!
@@DramaMustRemainOnTheStage thanks . I guess the Golden Age of Hollywood was good with the historical information and how they depicted the way of life during the Civil War .
Pres. Jefferson Davis and Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson were not related to each other. Which one do you say you're descended from? And what plantation did you "Old South relatives" live own?
Okay. Did you have any memories of pain or suffering from your experience coming from that historical property? Are you putting yourself in place of something that happened 400 hundred years ago? Pain, suffering, war, poverty, and being destitute is a part of life. Look at 2025 not 1820...
@ yes I have experienced pain and suffering from places like this! Nothing has changed in this country! My parents are from Jim Crow south and they have plenty of experience and knowledge about places like that! I don’t know you but I’ll bet your ancestors participated in inflicting the pain and suffering of my ancestors!
@justred5164 Did you personally go through the Jim Crow? If not, please go see a licence Psychotherapist. When someone can not move on from the hardship from the past it is called, "Rumination". This is a psychological word describing those like yourself, who have thoughts, fantasizing, romanticizing false impressions of Jim Crow making it difficult for him or her to move on from the Victorian Era...
@justred5164 Are you easily triggered about the antiquated Victorian and Jim Crow Era? How and why you have never lived in the 1800s? You must be an educated and licenced Historian.
@ nope! Just an African American woman who still lives with the abuse of racism and the symbolism of Jim Crow! You don’t have to be a licensed historian for that…
So many heartbreaking moment for black people on that plantation The hell with that plantation and glory be to God for death Calvin from Mobile Alabama
@@okimahitt7413 Just a thought, you should channel your anger towards the people enslaving 40 million in today’s world. Yes in 2021. Please research it and help them.
What a crying ass shame this house is lost to time. It is America's loss for sure. I'm quite confidant that the mining company burned the house down to try and get the mining rights. There must be a fortune of them on the property or they would have never asked to buy it. Total loss for everyone. I would have loved to view the house and see all it's beauty.
@@jasonsmith3250 Racebait, shut up. You never worked for free, there. Stop bringing up what happened hundreds of yrs ago. Nobody alive today had ANYTHING to do with slavery.
Jason Smith...I had a very good friend(older black lady) who's grandmother was a slave.She called it the big house and was very proud of it. After all it was her kin folk that built it. She would have fought tooth and nail to save the house had anything happened. She lived in it most her life..so there you go!!!! It was her home to. No she would have cryed if it happen to burn to the ground.
@@jasonsmith3250 -- I never said ONE WORD about slavery. YOU DID! I was not talking about slavery. YOU DID! The house has NOTHING to do with slavery. It is obvious you do not like it here in America. So leave! We don't want people like you here anyway so just pack your bags and get out. And don't forget to take those like minded lunatics with you. BYE!!
Ever think for one minute, he's probably speaking of the family that owned the place. RACEBAITER, Nobody alive today, owned slaves. Therefore NOT responsible for what happened hundreds of yrs ago. Grow up.
Gary...you ever toured one of these beautiful homes that the SLAVES built. Quiet beautiful. They are some of the most beautiful structures in the country that the SLAVES built. Instead of leaving a negative comment...enjoy what they left behind that is so historically beautiful. They with stood the test of ttime and if they were alive today I would shake their hands.....you should be proud to
I used to live real close to there. Had a senile old lady as my neighbor at one time. Everytime they were doing blasting on the freeway, she would call me and ask if that was yankee canons coming down the road. I had to assure her that we were still holding on to Richmond.
A good friend of mine from Morgan County told me in the 1950s he walked through Casulon, the place was abandon & opened a trunk in the attic & remembers seeing a Confederate uniform inside.
Fascinating! Just imagine the things that house has seen and heard.
Absolutely nothing
Thank you for the tour Sir! I love history!
History speaks. It’s never silent
The house itself looks SUPER SIMILAR to my great grandfathers house that was also in Walton county off highway 278 in Social Circle. Everyone called it the “Butler Place/Plantation” He lived there in the 1930’s-1940’s and farmed various crops. But moved sometime in the early/late 50’s.
Coincidently, someone set fire to the house on Halloween night in 1974.
How very sad. We had a similar situation with a Greek revival plantation between Dublin and Cochran, Ga. It had been converted into a restaurant and one night it burned beyond repair. It still feels awkward looking at the grand oaks that still stand.
What a shame. I love to look at old photos from the 1930s of plantation homes still intact, but in disrepair, of course. I bet most of them are gone
How very sad. If this were mine we would be disassembling and salvaging as much as possible.
Is it possible the fire was deliberate ??
It really suck that people would just let old houses like that just sit and rot anybody with me 👇
Wonder if anyone has done any kind of metal detecting there? If the place was built in 1824, there could be some amazing things hidden under the ground, etc. Coins, broken dishes, knobs from furniture and grand doors, jewelry, etc.
Thanks for your time in making the video, very cool feeling of a historic place, love it
Places always remind me of death camps. No justice, no respite. Ten thousand acres watered with how many peoples blood. How many people had to catch hell for that boxwood garden.Unsettling
Cry me a river
Wow thank u for sharing, I love history and places such as this are interesting to learn of .I can't wait to visit the plantations down there take a tour .I hope u kept that brochure lol wow !!!
I live in jasper county ga on Davidson road off barbridge rd there's some remains of an old probably 130 year old house but only the stone work is left its pretty cool
Any cemetaries on that property? Family plots?
I was thinking the same thing. I would be surprise if there isn't a burial ground somewhere on the grounds. Maybe there are even two cemeteries: one of the for the family that owned the plantation, one for the slaves.
@@andrewbrendan1579 the land that those are on may not belong to the plantation parcel anymore
@@ihave35cents95 I can believe that. It wouldn't surprise me if the land was sold of bit by bit to pay for taxes and such. I'm reminded of "A Streetcar Named Desire" in which Blanche tells her sister Stella's husband Stanley about Belle Reeve plantation where their family had lived and how it had been reduce until, as I recall there was just the house "...and a cemetery to which all but Stella and I have retreated"
@ I have an old plantation home outside of Charleston, the family, plots and slave plots are 3 miles down the road. The house went from 3500 acres to my 43
@@ihave35cents95
Well at least you still have it and 40 something acres is ok too
I lived in N Charleston for awhile, the subdivision we were in and the surrounding ones were built on an old plantation. I was taking a long walk and ran across a historical marker. I can't remember the man's name, but the land was granted to him for his Rev War service; I think by Washington.
I went there today and those columns on the right side have since fallen down😔
Hi, Josh - it didn't burn to the ground. Someone finished it off in recent years evidently. I have photos of a trip out there in the late 2000s, prior to 2010 and toured the inside. We made a few calls about it, since the remains were on the market. We went back within a week or two and suddenly the mantels were missing. We've always wondered if the interest shown to try to buy it, rustled someone out of the "bushes" to go get a few pieces before a possible owner change. Do you know all the stories behind the fire? There are many. Thanks for the video. I'd love to show you my pics one day.
I'd love to see those myself!
Reminds me of Stately Oaks in Jonesboro, GA
I’m sure there are graves on this land in am searching
yup, they found 4 dog and 7 cat burials already
@@carmineredd1198 What an insensitive person you are. If it was an enormous plantation there WERE graves, possibly a fenced family plot with slaves buried outside the fence line. They are everywhere in Georgia.
I’m sure you are right, Phillis. Many people were buried at home, but probably more in a church yard. That is, if you were a member of the church back then. At least that is the pattern I’ve found in my ancestors.
My brother in law was raised in one of the field hand houses- his father had purchased for $100 back in 70s.
I am sure this was a beauty. I would love to do and walk around with a metal detector and see what I could find.
My hunting land is the land arohnd it !!
Do you know where the family cemetery is on the property???
Do you know anything about the house that lies a little ways behind the plantation house? I found a lot of old magazines and other things dating around 2004. I also found a piece of mail with the residents name, but can’t find any other information.
I don't have any info on that. It burned around 2004.
@@joshparker9592 I went there a few times too and you can feel a strong presence there. Last time I went was Dec. 2019
See my comment above. If you take things from places like this, sometimes something very nasty can follow you home. Fair warning!
I've heard stories of a very wealthy man who found out that some of his ancestors were enslaved on this plantation and had it burned down after he couldn't buy it.
Why could the county or the owners clean the property of the home?
Kinda looks like the facade of Tara from GONE WITH THE WIND.
There's gotta be pictures of this beautiful building and they can restore it
Good place to do some metal detecting.
Somebody set that house on fire. That’s just wicked to destroy a historic house.
Good most plantations were places of rape and family separation
@@WAlkONRebel 💙🙏💙 Thanks 4 telling the truth - true story. Wonder where the slave-cabins 4 the enslaved people are on the property? Might be a family cemetery (like in other places) on the property?💙🙏💙🌹💙🌹💙🌹💙🌹💙😷
Walkonrebel those plantations and graves on them contain black ancestors history as well.
@@WAlkONRebel By your "logic" all cities should be burnt to the ground.
One of the columns said "Django Was Here" he blew it up lol.
What a shame to loose old homes like this, someone should get permission to salvage the remaining wood from her and make some cool sellable furniture pieces signed from the caulson plantation! Ive done this with a 1830 house in union point , ga
Dang a treasure like that should never have been burned to the ground like that twice. Carelessness. How awful.
Very Good!!
Historic plantation, how many black bodies are buried on this land. There are way too many nameless slaves that suffered. Bought, sold, hung, beaten, breed, raped! Souls CAN'T be at rest here. This place is historic alright.
My thoughts exactly.
Truth
Yea, kinda like all this black on black crime.
What was the cause of the fire? Thanks . Too bad! Interesting place!
I heard that there was a property dispute with a company that wanted to develop the land, and surprise, surprise the house burned in the night.
@@williamshelton4150 Doesn't surprise me at all.Seems it would have been updated with sprinklers and so forth.How was business before the fire?
@@Magnetron33 The story of the fire is featured in a book called Lost Plantations of the South. I don't remember too many of the details.
Hey I commented before do you know if this property is for sale I’m thinking of re-building a replica of the house in the same spot and restoring the rest of the property
Yes as far as I know it's for sale I think he wants $300k for 15 acres but there's a rock quarry nearby. I'm a licensed Realtor btw
michael moore there’s a rock quarry nearby and there is also a small hangout spot at jacks creek
Be very careful when you buy an older property that has a lot of dark history. And slavery was indeed dark history. You might get more than you bargained for!👻👻👻
@@beverlybarnes3122 ahhhh lol
@@beverlybarnes3122 your totally right maybe a new house somewhere else
you could get a tour in 1996?😮
Look at all the reusable wood, windows, fence, fieldstones. Probably all gone now, though. If there was some left, and I could get permission, I would love to come over there, salvage some, and have my husband use his metal detector on the grounds. Do you know who owns the property? I live in Ellijay, Ga. but it would be worth the trip just for metal detecting.
How sad, I hate to see historic places destroyed, coming from England where we have so much of it.
Tks.
I bet my ancestors were there they are from Walton county ga
I think my as well too.
Youth Pastor tried to scare you on Halloween night? Christians aren’t supposed to be giving Halloween attention. What kind of Church were you attending?🤷♂️
Sad very sad. Thank you
God bless 💖
Could someone at least preserve the gardens . I can’t find any interior pictures
It looks like it had 8 fireplaces. Places were so well built ! And someone could clean up the garden and it would be beautiful . Thank you for the tour . I will send this to my Mother .
Every room had one back then, the only source of heat.
What a proud ol girl she must have been
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks fr Veracruz state México.
that's correct 😊
May every last plantation built on the blood of enslaved peoples become as this one
Burned to the ground as it should be
Yes, let them all burn like the backs of my people who were whooped and hanged.
@@schorearush817 agreed! The atrocities that happened at plantations like this. It makes me want to vomit when people talk about beauty in these places. I can’t see any redeeming value here. People should stop romanticizing the old south. Ironically I used to know a guy back in the 90s that told me his family basically squatted here in the 1970s.
I have Southern roots in my mom’s family history- Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson. I can only imagine what life was like on a Southern Plantation, ( I’m not entirely convinced that GWTW was a perfect depiction, ... lol 😂) but just to wonder what it was like for my Old South relatives . This place was probably a beautiful one in it’s day . Are there any pictures of what it looked like before it was ravaged by fire ? ( my husband used to be a Firefighter, and he would tell me the “ older the structure, the more likely it’ll come completely down in a fiery inferno “ .)
Thanks for showing!
Just Google Casulon Plantation Georgia
GWTW was fairly correct in its depiction
@@DramaMustRemainOnTheStage thanks . I guess the Golden Age of Hollywood was good with the historical information and how they depicted the way of life during the Civil War .
Pres. Jefferson Davis and Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson were not related to each other. Which one do you say you're descended from? And what plantation did you "Old South relatives" live own?
@@karenbartlett1307 A Davis from his family married into the Jackson family . I know they’re not blood related, but by marriage they are . Duh
Suffering that went on there
I remember that place from the 90s, what a shame
Very sad. Must have been Amazing!
If you were one of the slaves it would have been hell. Why is it no one ever thinks of them? RIP Folks
Must have been amazing? Lol
@@beverlybarnes3122exactly
How sad that no one has salvaged what was left. There was, I'm sure, much that could have found its way into a new life, bringing the history with it.
What’s sad is the salves who had to live in this place. Fuck this house think about what it stood for?
I bet he wont go there at night
Horrid about the fire...destruction of history;
Why don't try to restore the house if it is part of history
not enough left
Your pretty darn handsome
I was thinking the same thing.
Me too
Freaking disgusting
@@marke2233 yes, you are.
@@beedoubleu547 shut up
Should have at least brought a metal detector or do some evps.
Facanating!......IRELAND
Surprise he didn’t get arrested for trespassing!
I’m sorry folks but the Big House isn’t cool. There’s lots of pain associated with a plantation..
Okay. Did you have any memories of pain or suffering from your experience coming from that historical property? Are you putting yourself in place of something that happened 400 hundred years ago? Pain, suffering, war, poverty, and being destitute is a part of life. Look at 2025 not 1820...
@ yes I have experienced pain and suffering from places like this! Nothing has changed in this country! My parents are from Jim Crow south and they have plenty of experience and knowledge about places like that! I don’t know you but I’ll bet your ancestors participated in inflicting the pain and suffering of my ancestors!
@justred5164 Did you personally go through the Jim Crow? If not, please go see a licence Psychotherapist. When someone can not move on from the hardship from the past it is called, "Rumination". This is a psychological word describing those like yourself, who have thoughts, fantasizing, romanticizing false impressions of Jim Crow making it difficult for him or her to move on from the Victorian Era...
@justred5164 Are you easily triggered about the antiquated Victorian and Jim Crow Era? How and why you have never lived in the 1800s? You must be an educated and licenced Historian.
@ nope! Just an African American woman who still lives with the abuse of racism and the symbolism of Jim Crow! You don’t have to be a licensed historian for that…
At his grandparents old house
Stop omg 💀
So many heartbreaking moment for black people on that plantation The hell with that plantation and glory be to God for death Calvin from Mobile Alabama
Racebait much?
@@lincolnmarkivguy9899 SAY WHAT YOU MAY BUT IS HE LYING?
I’m with you. I could t care if every last death camp of a plantation burned to ashes and blew to the four winds
It should’ve burn to the ground soon as it was built I could just imagine what took place with my black ancestors their !
Exactly
Out building? You mean slave cabins
Mr Parker do you know of any black families having the last name Clark or Price thanks
No sir. Can't say I do
@@joshparker9592 thanks
That’s not a part of history they care about.
@@okimahitt7413
Just a thought, you should channel your anger towards the people enslaving 40 million in today’s world. Yes in 2021. Please research it and help them.
They've all been done.Found 1964 dime in a coinstar.Find regularly.
What a crying ass shame this house is lost to time. It is America's loss for sure. I'm quite confidant that the mining company burned the house down to try and get the mining rights. There must be a fortune of them on the property or they would have never asked to buy it. Total loss for everyone. I would have loved to view the house and see all it's beauty.
Fuck that slavery house who had us working for free. Fuck this house let it burn
@@jasonsmith3250 Racebait, shut up. You never worked for free, there. Stop bringing up what happened hundreds of yrs ago. Nobody alive today had ANYTHING to do with slavery.
@@jasonsmith3250 who the fuck is us....fucking get over yourself....it's about a fucking house not the people that was there
Jason Smith...I had a very good friend(older black lady) who's grandmother was a slave.She called it the big house and was very proud of it. After all it was her kin folk that built it. She would have fought tooth and nail to save the house had anything happened. She lived in it most her life..so there you go!!!! It was her home to. No she would have cryed if it happen to burn to the ground.
@@jasonsmith3250 -- I never said ONE WORD about slavery. YOU DID! I was not talking about slavery. YOU DID! The house has NOTHING to do with slavery. It is obvious you do not like it here in America. So leave! We don't want people like you here anyway so just pack your bags and get out. And don't forget to take those like minded lunatics with you. BYE!!
Sad
excavate like letsdg18
I notice how you say "They", instead of "Slaves". Guess it makes you feel better.
You are not woke enough. He gives a shite. Slave, slave, slave. Dufus
Ever think for one minute, he's probably speaking of the family that owned the place. RACEBAITER, Nobody alive today, owned slaves. Therefore NOT responsible for what happened hundreds of yrs ago. Grow up.
What an idiot
Gary...you ever toured one of these beautiful homes that the SLAVES built. Quiet beautiful. They are some of the most beautiful structures in the country that the SLAVES built. Instead of leaving a negative comment...enjoy what they left behind that is so historically beautiful. They with stood the test of ttime and if they were alive today I would shake their hands.....you should be proud to
@@lincolnmarkivguy9899 U fuc#ken grow up
It shows the true dominance of white people.
More of the true Ignorance
@@falconsnation4998 The ignorance is explained by people of color