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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Alabama was one of the first seven states to withdraw from the Union prior to the American Civil War. The slave trade continued unabated in Alabama until at least 1863, with busy markets in Mobile and Montgomery largely undisputed by the war. [ 15 ]: 99–100. Slavery had been theoretically abolished by President Abraham Lincoln 's Emancipation ...
70000103 [ 1 ] Added to NRHP. December 2, 1970. Arlington Antebellum Home & Gardens, or Arlington Historic House, is a former plantation and 6 acres (24,000 m 2) of landscaped gardens near downtown Birmingham, Alabama. The two-story frame structure was built by enslaved people between 1845–50. Its style is antebellum -era Greek Revival ...
December 6, 1982. Grassdale Cemetery. The John Coleman House, also known as Grassdale, is a historic plantation house in Eutaw, Alabama, United States. The two-story wood-frame I-house was built by John Coleman from Edgefield, South Carolina, on property that he settled in 1819. [2] Coleman held 75 slaves during the 1840 United States Census of ...
The Joseph Wheeler Plantation, formally known as The Joseph Wheeler Plantation, is a historic plantation complex and historic district in the Tennessee River Valley in Wheeler, Alabama. [2] The property contains twelve historically significant structures dating from 1818 to the 1880s. [3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places ...
The Seward Plantation is a historic Southern plantation-turned-ranch in Independence, Texas. Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the 20th century. The complex included everything from the main residence down to the pens for livestock. Until the abolition of slavery, such ...
April 14, 1992 [2] The Forks of Cypress was a large slave-labour cotton farm and Greek Revival plantation house near Florence in Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States. It was designed by architect William Nichols for James Jackson and his wife, Sally Moore Jackson. Construction was completed in 1830. [1][3] It was the only Greek Revival ...
Added to NRHP. August 24, 2011. The Moore-Webb-Holmes Plantation is a historic active plantation on Alabama State Route 14 near Marion, Perry County, Alabama. The plantation began with 80 acres (32 ha) in 1819 and gradually expanded to thousands of acres. Although the main house burned in 1927, the outbuildings, barns, cook house and other ...