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Millhaven Plantation is an approximately 24,000 acre farm located in Screven County, Georgia. It is the largest family-owned farm east of the Mississippi River, but is now owned by Morris Communications, who bought the farm in 1996. The farm specializes in field crops and has a private hunting club. It has a lengthy history and has had many owners throughout the years. It used to raise livestock and had a sod program, but no longer specializes in either.

History
The first owner of the plantation was Seaborn Jones, who was an attorney out of Augusta, Georgia that began buying land in Georgia in 1794. It started out as a 5,800 acre land plot that he bought from Frances Parris. For twenty years he continued to buy land until his death in 1815. By this time he had accumulated 16,300 acres and had named the land Mill Haven. Before his death, he appointed his brother-in-law, Reuben Wilkinson, as manager. In 1819, the tract was allotted to Augustus Seaborn Jones, and was appraised at $25,000. Mill Haven stayed in the Jones family for three generations, but was sold in 1890 to John K. Garnett for $75,000; it was $4.60 per acre. In 1905, the farm was purchased from Robert C. Neely by Mr. E. T. Comer. He payed $86,000 to Augusta resident John W. Dickey. When Mr. Comer bought Millhaven, his goal was to create a facility that fullfilled expectations of buyers and produced results that would pay off all the work that was put into it. At this point in Millhaven's history, 4,500 of the 16,300 acres that made up the plantation was dedicated to plant cultivation; 5,000 acres were put aside for pasture land. The rest of the land was made up of swamps and could not be used. During these years, numerous crops were grown, including: cotton, corn, oats, hay, collards, rye, and potatoes. Livestock was also raised. One-thousand head of Hereford cattle were brought from the west, and about 800-1000 Tanworth hogs were also bred on the farm. There was also about 200 head of sheep.

The "Big House"
The Big House is a very large house located on the banks of Briar Creek close to the Francis Parris Mill. It was built in 1910 by the Comer family and became their home. Later on when Mr. Lorimer purchased Millhaven, he remodeled it and cleared and replanted the banks of Briar Creek.

The Creekhouse
The Creekhouse was built in 1965 by Huldah Mingledorff as a guesthouse for all of her friends and family to come visit her. It was built from large cypress logs found below Briar Creek, and sits where the old Parris Mill once stood.