This Italianate-style cottage is located beside the historic Sturdivant Hall in Selma, AL. It was built in 1859 for Mr. and Mrs. Clement Billingslea White. Mrs. White was the former Martha Todd of Lexington, Kentucky, and a half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln. Mr. White was not a military person so the [...]
Demopolis is located at the confluence of the Tombigbee River and Black Warrior River atop a chalk cliff, known locally as White Bluff. The settlement was founded and named by a group of political exiles who had been banished from France following the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte. This group reached White Bluff on July 14, [...]
This is the oldest documented structure in Camden. It was built for Thomas Dunn who was one of the earliest settlers of this area. He donated the land where Camden was built. This house was originally a two-story log house constructed c. 1825. The two-story frame addition was added to the house in the 1835-1840 [...]
This home was built circa 1840 for William Peter Webb, a lawyer, who came to Eutaw from North Carolina in 1839. The Greek Revival I-house styled building was built by Benjamin D. Gullett. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a part of the Antebellum Homes in Eutaw TR multiple property [...]
The First Presbyterian Church is a historic Greek Revival church building in Eutaw, AL. The two-story frame structure was built for the local Presbyterian congregation in 1851 by David R. Anthony. Anthony was a local contractor who constructed many of Eutaw’s antebellum buildings. The congregation was organized by the Tuscaloosa Presbytery in 1824 as the [...]
This home was built for Edward A. Blount and his wife, Mary, between 1853 and 1859. In January 1852, the Blount’s bought three lots at the location of this house for $26, $40 and $20. A clear title was granted for this property in January 1853 when the note was satisfied. In 1859, The Blount’s [...]
This log cabin is located beside the old depot to Peterman, AL. It was built by Deason Falkenberry (1825-1864) on the Coon Trail near Tunnel Springs. The cabin was donated to the Peterman Historical Society in 2008 by the Floyd Family in memory of Bertha Lee and Charley Ford and moved to its present location. [...]
The William Perkins House, also known as the Freemount, is a historic Greek Revival style house that was built in the 1850s by William Perkins, a wealthy merchant from Kentucky. The house is a two-story wood framed building on a raised brick foundation. Four monumental Ionic columns span the front portico. It has double parlors [...]
This historic building located in Camden, Alabama’s downtown historic district served as the law office for Colonel Franklin King Beck. Colonel Beck, who commanded the 23rd Alabama Infantry, held General U.S. Grant’s Union troops at bay for 12 hours with a single regiment at the Battle of Big Black Ridge (Mississippi). A year later, on [...]
Magnolia Grove, an excellent example of temple-style Greek Revival architecture, was built around 1840 as a town house by Isaac and Sarah Croom, whose plantations were about 20 miles south of Greensboro near Faunsdale. The main house and three dependencies are preserved on 15 acres. The house is a two-story masonry structure, built with bricks [...]
The Wilcox County Courthouse was built in 1858 by Alexander J. Bragg, brother of the builder of the Bragg-Mitchell home in Mobile. The Greek Revival structure is known architecturally for its four massive Doric columns and balustrade wrought iron steps leading to the second floor central doorway. It is one of only six antebellum court [...]
Overlooking the Tombigbee River, Bluff Hall exemplifies two major architectural trends in the Antebellum South. The house was built in 1832 by Allen Glover for his daughter, Sarah Serena Glover, and her husband, Francis Strother Lyon. The Lyons used Bluff Hall as a townhouse; they also resided at Bermuda Hill, their plantation near Arcola. The [...]
