Butler Island Fire destroys historical building near Darien, Georgia.

[@Griffinand3]

What a tragedy to lose a beautiful old piece of history! Thank you

[@johnmason-smith]

Descendants of the former slaves fought for the preservation of the property. Its a great story and its sad to lose the house

[@geraldineaherne9763]

Sad to see Andy. Thanks for sharing the history. Stay safe and healthy.

[@watthairston1483]

Interesting story. Sad loss of history...
Thanks Andy!

[@taramriley5665]

Oh that is too bad. I love historical structures.
Thank you for the history lesson

[@MinorcanMullet]

Thanks for watching

[@user-jo7rw8rx9f]

Another great video and history lesson too. Thanks Capt. Andy

[@MinorcanMullet]

Our pleasure!

[@stephaniemcquillan1930]

Ashley Godwin TGN uploaded a video tour of the whole house 5 years ago and I don’t know how many times I’ve watched that video because the place was amazing! I was just watching it again a few days ago when I had other videos recommended to me showing its destruction! I couldn’t believe it and I still can’t! I’m from the U.K. and knew nothing about this place previous to seeing it on UA-cam. From what I had seen the basement windows and entrance as well as the first floor had been sealed up, or at least was in the process of being sealed up. Terrible that somebody would destroy a place like this.

[@frzstat]

I was fishing next to that house a few years ago, at the Butler Island Public Dock. It was a nice piece of Georgia coastal history.

[@frzstat]

🥲
edited to add, both of the books Andy mentioned, Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation and Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War, are available on Amazon including Kindle versions.

[@doylehenderson319]

What a shame to lose another historical building. The last time we came down to your area we drove out and visited that site and read the same historical markers. It seems to me I heard/read that someone was using that house as a studio course I might be wrong. Thanks Capt Andy for all you do.... stay safe!!!

[@dennisarellano7378]

Very sad when a piece of history is lost.

[@beaulieuc8910]

and my family history

[@kellythompson4663]

How horrible and sad for the community. 😢

[@ensnipe2000]

Saw that house on Mysteries of the Abandoned

[@MrFrogman54]

Thanks for sharing….

[@watsonvilleify]

Now the news says that they have arrested a 33 yo man for arson and theft when he was observed coming out of the home just before the fire! That just makes me sick. There is no sense for such a loss of our history.

[@JohnShinn1960]

Sadness felt here for the state of Georgia.
Reminds me of the loss of our Wye Oak, an approximately 460 year old oak in Wye Mills Maryland that blew down in a storm in 2002.
Wood from the tree was used to make the governor's desk among other items.
Stayin tuned Captain Andy!
👍🤠

[@KB-gs8zi]

Well Captain !1 Sorry to see this happen ,, but if you look at the Centuries Old Barns & Buildings still standing ,, they have the ""OL"" Lighting Rods "" on them & if there is an Electrical storm ,, they would protect the buildings !! 👍👍👍👍👍

[@ren-uz2mz]

Oh it hurts to see historic property lost😢 The fact that so many with a personal tie to the history fought to preserve the property for teaching make the pain so much worse...

[@The.Real.Timmii]

thank you!

[@MinorcanMullet]

You're welcome!

[@davenitsch6094]

What a shame!

[@edhammond8709]

Thank you

[@ItsLookingUp]

Historical structures like that cannot be reconstructed and have the same value. Unfortunately, without the house the area may have less and less influence on the history of the Island.

[@jimbrewer2893]

It's always sad when a piece of history is destroyed as this was.

[@polishchachafishing]

That’s so sad! We have so much history in the south, loss for sure😢

[@beaulieuc8910]

fanny was my relative, she is buried with her father in Kensal Green Cemetary London

[@kathleentansill1975]

Always bad when history is destroyed

[@SharonKitchen-eu7bb]

A lot of the Bulter plantation decendants live on old river road in Darien,Ga...and all around the city of Darien...the officals now say arson..by Kyle Gill from Oregon who Ky has warrants out on, not lightning.

[@Brandonbarn10]

I hate when history is lost..

[@gregjohnson7210]

ohh no

[@jhonditch4269]

damn that is a loss

[@GOPOSTAL761]

I thought they said it was arson cause they arrested someone who ran from the building

[@JohnShinn1960]

Because of rumors one must pick a favorite.

[@miltonmillwright]

It was Arson

[@user-di4kv9yk3g]

history is always an amazing thing, funny how as a kid i hated history lessons in school, but i think like many things as you mature, history becomes more important - i thought straight away, a big house in Georgia, maybe connected with slavery, much as we may frown on the subject now, at least once slavery was abolished some good came from that - and even with the story of this place, seems perhaps slavery might not have been that bad as so many returned to the area and even continued farming, good on them, and bless all those relatives closely connected - for histories sake, i hope this place might be rebuilt, maybe even left as a ruin might be more appealing of what was and no longer exists for a act of God
still a sad sight and for the contents all gone, truly the end of an era, but i hope the land will remain as a reminder to all those hard years

[@royreynolds108]

Somebody will plead for the state or federal government to spend millions of dollars on rebuilding the house for "history".

[@ren-uz2mz]

Oh and the rarely told history, owned by Yankees umm-hmm...