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Built in stages from 1832 through the 1850s. Allen Glover, a native of Edgefield District, South Carolina and resident of nearby Demopolis, gave this 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) estate, along with the beginnings of the main house situated upon its star-shaped hill, to his son, Williamson Allen Glover, in the early 1830s. 73000356 Rosewood
James Innes Thornton was born October 28, 1800, at the Thornton family plantation known as Fall Hill, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He was educated at Washington and Lee University and then emigrated to Huntsville, Alabama. He began to practice law there in 1820. He was elected as Alabama's third secretary of state in 1824 and remained in that ...
01-20296. GNIS feature ID. 0117222 [ 3 ] Website. demopolisal.gov. Demopolis is the largest city in Marengo County, in west-central Alabama. The population was 7,162 at the 2020 census. [ 4 ] The city lies at the confluence of the Black Warrior River and Tombigbee River.
Thornton's first marriage was to Mary Ann Glover (1808 - 1830), a native of Alabama who was the daughter of Allen Glover and Sarah Norwood. [1] The Glovers had been a moderately affluent South Carolina family who, by the time of Thornton's marriage, had acquired vast land and slave holdings.
Gaineswood was designed and built by General Nathan Bryan Whitfield, beginning in 1843 as a dog-trot cabin, an open-hall log dwelling. Whitfield was a cotton planter who had moved from North Carolina to Marengo County, Alabama in 1834. In 1842, Whitfield bought the 480-acre (1.9 km 2) property from George Strother Gaines, younger brother of ...
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 ...
Designated ARLH. September 14, 1977[3] Bellingrath Gardens and Homeis the 65-acre (26 ha) public gardenand historic home of Walter and Bessie Bellingrath, located on the Fowl Rivernear Mobile, Alabama, United States. Walter Bellingrath was one of the first Coca-Colabottlers in the Southeast, and with his wealth built the estate garden and home.
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 ...