Courtesy of Miley Cowart.

Year Erected: 2011

Marker Text: Near here was Ardoch Plantation, the home of the McDonalds and Gignilliats from Colonial Days through the Civil War. During the Revolutionary War, some believed the owner Charles McDonald was a Loyalist, as many Georgians were. In 1782, Revolutionists plundered St. Andrew's Parish. They murdered nearly a dozen Loyalists. Among them was Charles McDonald. It is said McDonald was killed in his own doorway in the presence of his wife and children, and the house burned. After the Civil War, the Gignilliat family sold the land to their formerly enslaved laborers.

Re-erected by the Georgia Historical Society in 2022