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Talladega. Built for Nathaniel Welch, a native of Virginia, by Almarion Devalco Bell in 1858. 93000598. Altwood. Faunsdale 32°25′31″N87°40′52″W / 32.42533°N 87.68124°W / 32.42533; -87.68124 (Altwood) Marengo. Built in 1836 for Richard Henry Adams and Anna Carter Harrison, both natives of Virginia. 70000103.
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 ...
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 ...
Hugh Comer (brother) John Wallace Comer (13 June 1845 – 20 September 1919) was a businessman, slave owner, mine operator and planter in Alabama during the Reconstruction Era and the early 1900s. The brother of Alabama Governor B. B. Comer, John Wallace Comer operated the Comer family plantation in Barbour County, Alabama. J. W.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
History. Slave owners included a comparatively small number of people of at least partial African ancestry in each of the original Thirteen Colonies and later states and territories that allowed slavery; [2][3] in some early cases, black Americans also had white indentured servants. It has been widely claimed that an African former indentured ...
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 ...
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 ...