Perdue-Williams-Estes Home at Furman, AL (ca. 1895)
This home was built around 1895 by a lumber entrepreneur named Perdue. It is a two-story frame end gabled central passage house two piles in depth, featuring a two-tiered wraparound porch on all four sides. It also features four brick exterior chimneys, flush board siding, balustered railing and jigsaw work brackets on the upper porch [...]
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Furman Methodist Church at Furman, AL (completed 1882)
The original church building was constructed in 1857 on the present site of land. The current building was finished in 1882, and has served the Furman area ever since. It ceased to be an active church in 1998, but it still has an annual service each April with many of the descendants of the original [...]
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Palmer-Barlow-Britt Home (1830s) at Furman, AL
This “coastal cottage” is thought to have been built in the 1830′s by Stephen and Juliet Palmer and possibly modified by Dabney Palmer around 1860. It is a classic 1 ½ story “Carolina” cottage featuring a central passage with rooms to each side, including a unique prayer room with gothic arched windows. The front porch [...]
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Carter-Cunningham-Wilson-Bell Home, “Fox Hill”, at Furman, AL (late 1830s or early 1840s)
This home was constructed in the late 1830′s or early 1840′s by either Addison Scarbrough or Edmond Hobdy. Mr. Hobdy built several homes in the area during this period. The style is “Plantation Plain” with shed rooms across the rear and a “prophets chamber” room in the right front. Much of the original glass remains [...]
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Bethsaida Baptist Church at Furman, AL (1858-1860)
Bethsaida Baptist Church was founded in 1831 at a site very close to the present building. Elder Hawthorne was the first pastor, and some of the founding families were the Albrittons, Lees, Purefoys (Purifoys), McCondichies, and Fowlers. Mr. A. Scarbrough sold property to Edward Hobdy and Dr. William Gulley, who then donated it to the [...]
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Purifoy-Lipscomb House at Furman, AL (ca. 1840)
This home, located in Furman, AL, was built around 1840 by the Purifoy family, one of the earliest to settle Wilcox County. Its style is similar to several in the Furman area, and is almost identical to that of “Fox Hill”. It was probably built by Edmond Hobdy, and remained in the Purifoy family until [...]
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Wakefield Plantation Home at Furman, AL (built in 1840s)
This beautiful antebellum home, located in the Furman community, was built in a one-of-a-kind Steamboat Gothic style. The nearly 6,000 sq. ft. of living area consists of 12 rooms and 12 fireplaces, and unique porches on all sides. It was named “Wakefield” by the Gulley family which owned the home from its construction in the [...]
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