Interesting Perhaps for your coastal Georgia and historic Savannah Georgia travels? TRUSTEES GARDEN (WHERE THE PIRATES HOUSE RESTAURANT NOW SITS, WAS THE DESIGNATED AREA FOR MULBERRY GROVES IN THE ORIGINAL MULBERRY GROVE PLANTATION , ON THE LANDS OF THE GEORGIA PORTS AUTHORITY IN PORT WENTWORTH, IS WHERE ELI WHITNEY IS CREDITED WITH INVENTING THE COTTON GIN WHILE HE VISITED WITH GENERAL NATHANAEL GREENE'S WIDOW, CATHERINE. MULBERRY GROVE PLANTATION'S NAMESAKE IS SAID TO HAVE COME FROM JOHN CUTHBERT, WHO PLANTED MULBERRY TREES THERE FOR THE SILK INDUSTRY. JULY 8, 1856