![]() ![]() She first lived in the family home of her mother, Regina, on Greene Street in Milledgeville, then owned by her uncles Louis and Bernard Cline. ![]() In 1951, Flannery O'Connor returned to her home state of Georgia, where she had grown up, after being diagnosed with a form of lupus. Hawkins had 100 enslaved people working the property, many of which were sold at the auction block next to the Presbyterian Church in Milledgeville. ![]() After Polly Stovall's death, the estate was purchased at a public auction by sometime mayor of Milledgeville, Nathan Hawkins, and later sold to Col. ![]() The plantation was worked by no less than 39 enslaved people owned by Stovall. The land on which Andalusia was first built had in the mid-19th century been a working plantation of between 1,500 and 1,700 acres owned and operated by Joseph and Mary "Polly" Stovall. It comprises 544 acres (2.20 km 2), including the plantation house where O'Connor wrote some of her last and best-known fiction. The estate is located in rural Georgia in Baldwin County, Georgia, approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Milledgeville. ![]()
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