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2. Marengo County, Alabama - Wikipedia

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   Marengo County is situated in the west-central area of the state. [1] According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 983 square miles (2,550 km 2), of which 977 square miles (2,530 km 2) is land and 5.8 square miles (15 km 2) (0.6%) is water. [7]

3. Faunsdale Plantation - Wikipedia

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   These records indicate that the Harrison family owned roughly 99 slaves in 1846, a few years after they acquired this property. [4] Harrison is listed in the 1850 Federal Census of Marengo County as having $18,300 in property, based mostly on the value of the enslaved people he held. [2]

4. List of plantations in Alabama - Wikipedia

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   Built from 1844–46 for Amos Travis, a native of Georgia. It is a major contributing property to the Gainesville Historic District. Adventure Plantation Faunsdale vicinity: Marengo: Co-owned by H. A. Tayloe, William Henry Tayloe and Benjamin Ogle Tayloe.

5. William Henry Tayloe - Wikipedia

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   William Henry Tayloe (January 29, 1799 – January 7, 1871) was an American plantation owner, enslaver, horse breeder, businessowner, and land speculator during the first half of the 19th century. He inherited a vast estate from his father and expanded his holdings, pioneering new territory in the Canebrake region of Alabama .

6. Faunsdale, Alabama - Wikipedia

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   Faunsdale Plantation slave quarters in 2008. Faunsdale is a town in Marengo County, Alabama, United States.At the 2020 census the population was 90, [2] down from 98 in 2010. . Faunsdale is home to a community of Holdeman Mennonites, the only such community outside of Greensboro, Ala

7. Roseland Plantation - Wikipedia

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   He was an vigorous advocate for the UA his entire adult life. James Fitts (the father) had established Roseland as a 1,200-acre (490 ha) plantation in the Canebrake region of Marengo County during the late 1820s, but was murdered by a discharged overseer on July 16, 1832. His death left Samuel, at the age of eighteen, in charge of caring for ...