Boggy Swamp Plantation and White Oak Plantation
Old Post Road near Woodbine, Georgia.
Boggy Swamp plantation was located on North end of Camden. East of Old Post Road and is North of
Waverly Plantation,
and South of
Wayside Plantation. It was developed David Brown and his wife, Elizabeth Atkinson Brown, however, in
1817 he purchasedWhite Oak Plantation and moved there.
Boggy Swamp was then sold to Alexander Atkinson, but had the misfortune to be murdered by five
slaves in 1840. The five slaves were captured, tried, convicted, and the hung at the spot where
Mr. Atkinson was killed. The place is now known as The Gallows.
