About

During and before "The War Between the States" the property now occupied by Brickyard Plantation Golf Club was owned by James M. (Jim) Johnson, the great grandfather to the current owner, Mary Lillian Johnson Clark.  Today she and her husband, W. N. Clark, can trace back seven generations of ownership.  The present acreage is 800 acres of the original 7000 acres.  Until about 1950 it was farmed by mules.  Crops grown were peanuts, cotton and wheat.  The plantation had its own cotton gin, commissary, blacksmith shop, cane mill and many houses for the local labor.  Bricks were used for these houses and they were made on the farm.