Below are some of the oldest and most historic structures that remain in rural southwest Alabama. Click on the "learn more" icons to access additional details and pictures.
The Ackerville Baptist Church of Christ congregation was founded in 1844 with twenty-eight members. Membership had risen to seventy-nine by 1847, and …
The Airmount Grave Shelter, also known as the Hope Family Grave Shelter, is a Greek Revival structure located in the Airmount Cemetery near Thomasvill …
The first issue of The Alabama Baptist newspaper was published on February 4, 1843 in Marion, AL. This building, built as an office building in the e …
This is one of the oldest remaining covered bridges in Alabama. It was originally constructed across the Sucarnoochee River on the main state road lea …
This house, originally a stagecoach inn, was build in old Erie and moved to Eutaw by Dr. Abram F. Alexander who gave it to his daughter and her husban …
This Greek Revival style house was built for John Gray Allen in 1857 by David Rudisill. It is a two-story frame structure with a two-story front porti …
Altwood is a historic plantation house located approximately six miles southwest of Faunsdale. It was built circa 1836 by Richard H. Adams. It began …
Dr. John C. Anderson purchased this lot in February of 1849 and had a home built consisting of two front rooms with four windows each and two smaller …
Andrews Chapel, also known as the McIntosh Log Church, is one of the few remaining log churches in Alabama. In 1860, John C. Rush and his wife donated …
The Asa White house, also known as the White-McGiffert house, was built circa 1838 by Colonel Asa White, one of Greene County’s earliest settlers. Eut …
Ashe Cottage, also known as the Ely House, is a historic Carpenter Gothic house in Demopolis. It was built circa 1832 and expanded and remodeled in th …
Located in front of this church is a historical marker. Following are the details provided on this marker: “This building was constructed c. 1849 as a …
The Attoway R. Davis Cottage is a historic house in Eutaw, AL. The main portion of this house is a two-story I-house, built in 1817. It is the oldest …
Arthur Pendleton Bagby, who served two terms as Governor of Alabama (1837 and 1839) and later as a U. S. Senator, moved to Camden in 1853. He contrac …
This is a 2-story brick slave quarters that was built by Stephen Barker in 1860 behind his large brick mansion. The building originally had no columns …
It is believed that this house was built for Jehu Bates and his wife, Janet Barnes Bates. Jehu bought the property in 1833 and sold it after his wife …
This Vermont Colonial-style house was built by the Bates family circa 1830. This two-story structure was originally constructed of hand-hewn logs that …
This is a historic plantation house located in south Hale County at Gallion. It was built around 1820 as a two-by-two log cabin. By the 1840s, two ad …
This home, known as “River Bluff House,” was built around 1847 for William King Beck, a nephew of William Rufus King, Vice-President of the United Sta …
This house, commonly referred to as “The Beck Place”, is a two-story frame building constructed circa 1850-60 in a vernacular interpretation of the Gr …
This historic building located in Camden’s downtown historic district served as the law office for Colonel Franklin King Beck. Colonel Beck, who comma …
This 5,000 square feet Greek Revival building was originally constructed circa 1850 as a boys’ academy. The contractor was Willis H. Green. In 1880, t …
The Bethea-Strother house, also known as “Pleasant Ridge”, is the only brick antebellum residence remaining in Wilcox County, and one of the few extan …
The Bethel Presbyterian Church was established on September 22, 1835, about 3 miles toward the northwest near Emelle where the Bethel Memorial Chapel …
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 found …
This home was built for Edward A. Blount and his wife, Mary, between 1853 and 1859. In January 1852, the Blounts bought three lots at the location of …
Bluff Hall is located atop a limestone cliff overlooking the Tombigbee River in Demopolis. The house was built in 1832 by Allen Glover for his daughte …
This small brick building, known as the “Boddie” Law Office, is one of the few remaining buildings in Dayton, AL. It was built by Oliver B. Boddie an …
Built prior to 1847, this is a two-story, Italianate home that has a full-height porch with front gable. Exterior features of the house include bay wi …
Heritage Village at Selma is the site of several 1800’s structures that were donated to the Selma-Dallas County Historic Preservation Society by priva …
This two-story, plantation home was built circa 1850. The house design is attributed to local builder William T. Mathews. This house has an unusual st …
The Capt Edwin Reese House, also known as the Basil Hall, is a historic Greek Revival style house in Eutaw. The house is a two-story wood framed build …
This house is a classic Greek Revival plantation home that was built circa 1853 for Captain Nathan Carpenter, who had served with the Eutaw Rangers in …
Carlowville is a small community in southern Dallas County. Shown is the Carlowville Baptist Church. Local tradition attributes the design of this two …
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 d …
Cedar Grove, also known as the Charles Walker House, is a Greek Revival plantation house located in Marengo County near Faunsdale. This plantation hom …
Also referred to as the Cochran-Crumpton House, Crumptonia, and the McCrary House, this 2-story Greek Revival style home was built circa 1855 for Sout …
The Coleman-Banks house, also known as the James Oliver Banks house, is the first of four antebellum homes at Eutaw, AL to have original colossal-orde …
This office was built circa 1834 by Judge John Gates Creagh who was an attorney, commissioner, county treasurer, judge of county orphans court and sta …