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The Birmingham Back to Backs (also known as Court 15) are the city's last surviving court of back-to-back houses. They are preserved as examples of the thousands of similar houses that were built around shared courtyards , for the rapidly increasing population of Britain's expanding industrial towns.
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.
Proctor House may refer to: Brown-Proctor House , Scottsboro, Alabama, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Jackson County, Alabama Davis-Proctor House , Twin City, Georgia, listed on the NRHP in Emanuel County, Georgia
The Tate House is a historic property east of Tate, Georgia on Georgia State Route 53.Colonel Samuel Tate began construction in 1921 and the mansion was completed in 1926. Designed by Walker and Weeks, architects in the Neo-Classical style, the home is made of pink and white marble (Etowah Marble) supplied by Tate's Georgia Marble Company, and sometimes called the "Pink Palace" or "Pink Marble ...
The Georgia Marble Company was founded in 1884 by Samuel Tate. Tate leased out all the land in Pickens County, Georgia, which contained rich Georgia marble.Pickens County has a vein of marble 5 to 7 miles (8.0 to 11.3 km) long, a half mile wide, and up to 2,000 feet (610 m) deep.
Samuel Washington, more than two years younger than George, died in 1781 and was buried in the cemetery at his Harewood estate near Charles Town, West Virginia. Records showed that Harewood ...
Samuel DeWitt Proctor was born in Norfolk, Virginia on July 13, 1921. [1] Unusual for an African American born in this era, Proctor's grandparents on both sides had received education at the university level: his paternal grandmother had attended Hampton Institute, and both of his maternal grandparents had attended Norfolk Mission College,the forerunner of Booker T Washington High School in ...
Colonel James Robert Powell (1814–1883) was a founder of the city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the city's first elected mayor (1873–1875).Before that, he held office in the Alabama State Senate (1853–1856) and the Alabama House of Representatives (1845–1846).