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Dunaway Home at Orrville, AL (designed by George F. Barber, built 1895, listed on the Alabama Register)

This Victorian farmhouse was designed by renowned Knoxville architect, George F. Barber, and it is listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage. The house has seven bedrooms, three full baths, and six fireplaces. The exterior is wood frame …

Mill-Albritton House at Orrville, AL (built ca. 1860; recorded in HABS)

This two-story home was built circa 1860. It has a gable roof that extends over the full-height hexastyle portico with freestanding octagonal columns on brick piers that shelter a balustrade deck-type porch and small balcony over the main doorway. This …

Moseley Grove, the Moseley-Seale House, near Orrville, AL (built ca. 1857)

This plantation home, located southeast of Orrville in the Molette’s Bend area of the Alabama River, was built circa 1857 for Lewis Buckley Moseley. It has remained in the Moseley family since that time. The front of this house is almost identical to t …

Orrville Male Academy Building at Orrville, AL (built ca. 1850; recorded in HABS)

The Orrville Male Academy building, or Ben Ellis Dunaway House, was built around 1850 as a boys’ academy. The contractor was Willis H. Green. In 1880, the building was converted into a home by Benjamin F. Ellis who was a Confederate veteran and promine …

Orrville United Methodist Church at Orrville, AL

This church is located in Orrville, AL in Dallas County at the intersection of Mill Street South and Academy Street (GPS coordinates 32.30489,-87.245974). Following are details provided on a historical marker that’s located in front of the church: **** …

Prosperity CME Church near Orrville (built c. 1913, listed on the ARLH)

This church was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks & Heritage (ARLH) on 9/27/07. According to the Alabama Historical Commission’s PreserveALA.org website, this church was built circa 1913. The Prosperity CME Church is located beside CR 33 a …

Tasso near Orrville, AL (built mid-1830s)

This plantation home, located southeast of Orrville in the Molette’s Bend area of the Alabama River, was built on land originally owned by Thomas Brooks Rutherford, who died in Cahawba 1824, and who is buried in the old Cahawba Cemetery. The house was …