List of plantations in Alabama

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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that
are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places,
listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant
for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and
design.[1][2][3][4][5]
A 2014 article listed numerous plantation houses that were endangered or had already
been lost.[6]

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Color
Historic register listing
key

National Historic Landmark

National Register of Historic Places

Contributing property to a National Register of Historic Places historic district

Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage

Alabama Century and/or Heritage Farm (Alabama Department of Agriculture)

Not listed on national or state register

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Gainesville
Built from 1844–46 for A
85002925 Aduston Hall 32.81317°N Sumter
contributing property to
88.15933°W

Faunsdale vicinity
Adventure Co-owned by H. A. Tayl
32.44485°N Marengo
Plantation Tayloe. Later part of Cub
87.64699°W

Alpine
Built for Nathaniel Welc
Alpine 33.35113°N Talladega
in 1858.
86.23722°W

Faunsdale
Built in 1836 for Richard
93000598 Altwood 32.42533°N Marengo
natives of Virginia.
87.68124°W

Built from 1845–50 for W

Birmingham plantation was in the com
70000103 Arlington 33.49991°N Jefferson It was used as a headqua
86.83880°W plantation and communi
that Mudd helped establi

Greensboro
94000690 Atkins' Ridge 32.69073°N Hale Built for John Atkins, a n
87.57666°W

Newbern
Augusta Sledge
94000686 32.51972°N Hale Built in the cottage orné
House
87.56888°W
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Cherokee Listed as a National Hist

73000337 Barton Hall 34.75079°N Colbert "unusually sophisticated
88.00268°W completed in 1849 by Ar

Prairieville One of several contiguou

94000698 Battersea 32.51028°N Hale natives of Petersburg, Vi
87.70306°W during the 1820s, but wa

Belle Mina One of the earliest planta

72000164 Belle Mina 34.64479°N Limestone Belle Mina was built fro
86.88078°W governor, Thomas Bibb.

Built between 1828 and

Tuscumbia vicinity
Virginia. Considered by
82002003 Belle Mont 34.66167°N Colbert
of Thomas Jefferson's in
87.66694°W
States.

Pleasant Hill vicinity
This plantation was estab
Belvoir 32.20278°N Dallas
of Wilkes County, Georg
86.96184°W

Although the exact build

Prairieville
property was owned by W
94000692 Bermuda Hill 32.53005°N Hale
sold it in 1845 to his bro
87.69419°W
County.
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Boligee
Built 1840,
82002014 Boligee Hill 32.75972°N Hale
Now known as Myrtle H
87.98889°W

Greensboro
94000685 Borden Oaks 32.71787°N Hale Built 1835–37
87.68931°W

Wheeler
86001544 Bride's Hill 34.67024°N Lawrence Built 1830
87.24452°W

Prattville
74000396 Buena Vista 32.42444°N Autauga Built c.1822–1844
86.45194°W

Perdue Hill
Bullard Plantation 31.50564°N Monroe Built 1858–59
87.53170°W

Faunsdale
93000763 Cedar Crest 32.42751°N Marengo Built 1850
87.66042°W
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Faunsdale
Cedar Grove
93000599 32.44782°N Marengo Built 1848
Plantation
87.57584°W

Faunsdale
93000600 Cedar Haven 32.41768°N Marengo Built 1850, destroyed du
87.58691°W

Franklin
Chasley Farms 31.70467°N Monroe Built 1835, rare intact pl
87.45651°W

Fort Payne
Cherokee
84000384 34.48707°N DeKalb Built 1821, with later ex
Plantation
85.67179°W

Gainesville
85002924 Colgin Hill 32.80916°N Sumter Built 1832
88.15527°W

Camden vicinity
Cook Hill 31.98732°N Wilcox Built 1839, an I-house.
87.38651°W

Camden
95000147 Countryside 31.97182°N Wilcox Built 1855, also known a
87.37740°W
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Creek Stand
89000310 Creekwood 32.30000°N Macon Built 1850
85.47944°W

Crumptonia
Crumptonia 32.21400°N Dallas Built 1855
87.28900°W

Faunsdale
93000601 Cuba Plantation 32.44485°N Marengo Built 1850
87.64699°W

Centreville
Davidson
87001552 32.94277°N Bibb Built for Samuel Wilson
Plantation
87.13361°W

Claiborne
93001517 Dellet Plantation 31.53884°N Monroe Built c.1835–40
87.50752°W

Lowndesboro
Dicksonia 32.25797°N Lowndes Built 1830–56, burned 1
86.60869°W
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Tuscaloosa Built 1837,
Drish Plantation 33.19755°N Tuscaloosa remodeled 1855.
87.56185°W House is only remnant o

Coy
Dry Fork
99000250 31.90167°N Wilcox Built 1832–34
Plantation
87.36056°W

Carlowville vicinity
Eden 32.13620°N Dallas Built 1830
87.24959°W

Montgomery vicinity
73000367 Edgewood 32.34684°N Montgomery Built 1821
86.28660°W

Elmwood Plantation, Es
Arcola vicinity Col. George Edward Tay
Elmwood
32.543109°N Hale Mobile, Alabama, circa 1
Plantation
87.791350°W wife of William Kissam
the 9th Duchess of Marlb

Elm Bluff
Elm Bluff 32.17074°N Dallas Built 1845
87.10347°W
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Greensboro
Elm Ridge
91001483 32.71840°N Hale Built c.1836
Plantation
87.63399°W

Eutaw
Everhope
99000793 32.90155°N Greene Built 1852–53
Plantation
87.97009°W

Uniontown
Fairhope
92000630 32.44528°N Perry Built c.1857 by Joseph S
Plantation
87.49083°W

Faunsdale Patented in 1832 by H. A

Faunsdale
93000602 32.43543°N Marengo built 1844 by Dr. Thoma
Plantation
87.60283°W property.[10]

Florence Built 1830,

97001166 Forks of Cypress 34.84500°N Lauderdale struck by lightning
87.72556°W and burned 1966.

Demopolis
72000167 Gaineswood 32.508726°N Marengo Built 1843–61
87.835239°W
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Pittsview vicinity
Glennville
79000402 32.11452°N Russell Built 1840s, contributing
Plantation
85.17391°W

Pittsview
Glenn-Thompson
80000735 32.13667°N Russell Built 1837
Plantation
85.15167°W

Greensboro
78000488 Glencairn 32.70028°N Hale Built 1835
87.59583°W

Oak Hill vicinity
Grace-Chesnut
31.93566°N Wilcox Built 1852, an I-house.
House
87.05146°W

Eutaw
82001617 Grassdale 32.86167°N Greene Built c.1820.
87.92389°W

Tuskegee
80000364 Grey Columns 32.42639°N Macon Built 1854
85.70500°W
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Arcola
Alfred Hatch
87001784 32.56658°N Hale Built 1856
Place at Arcola
87.77001°W

Prairieville
94000694 Hawthorne 32.51284°N Hale Built 1818–1862
87.69836°W

Pine Apple
85000452 Hawthorne 31.88006°N Wilcox Built 1854
86.98912°W

Aliceville vicinity
Dr. William Built from 1845–50, kno
33.08888°N Pickens
Hughes Plantation It was razed in 1939.
88.06679°W

Talladega vicinity
93001012 Idlewild 33.51028°N Talladega Built 1843
86.04583°W

Aliceville
Ingleside 33.11893°N Pickens Built 1849
88.14669°W
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Tuscumbia
70000101 Ivy Green 34.73944°N Colbert Built 1820
87.70667°W

Selma vicinity
Kenan Plantation 32.45848°N Dallas Built c.1840
87.03832°W

Marion
90001318 Kenworthy Hall 32.63514°N Perry Built 1858–60
87.35222°W

Eutaw
76000327 Kirkwood 32.84667°N Greene Built 1858
87.89583°W

Livingston
Lakewood 32.58749°N Sumter Built 1840
88.18372°W

Founded by John Larkin

Perry expanded it to 2,085 acre
Larkin Plantation Uniontown 32.58749°N from ages 33 to 40. Will
88.18372°W leaving Mount Airy, in V
Tayloe II, whom eventua
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Livingston vicinity
Lee Haven 32.49555°N Sumter Built 1840, an I-house.
88.12058°W

Camden
84000751 Liberty Hall 31.97194°N Wilcox Built 1855
87.33667°W

Gallion
Macon Station 32.497981°N Hale Founded by H. A. Taylo
87.713593°W

Burkville vicinity
Magnolia Crest 32.31983°N Lowndes Built 1840s
86.52512°W

Seale vicinity
76000355 Magnolia Green 32.34601°N Russell Built 1840
85.13239°W

Greensboro
73000345 Magnolia Grove 32.70429°N Hale Built 1840
87.60786°W
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Greensboro
76000328 Magnolia Hall 32.702222°N Hale Built c. 1855, contributin
87.590278°W

Lowndesboro
73000356 Marengo 32.28402°N Lowndes Built 1847, contributing
86.60916°W

Selma
82002010 Marshall's Grove 32.46611°N Dallas Built 1840
87.00639°W

Orrville vicinity
McMillan
32.17109°N Dallas Built 1858
Plantation
87.18250°W

Lowndesboro
73000356 Meadowlawn 32.27726°N Lowndes Built 1853, contributing
86.61047°W

McShan vicinity
Melrose 33.40188°N Pickens Built 1840
88.11993°W

Sandy Ridge
88003123 Merry Oaks 32.02472°N Lowndes Built 1860
86.45167°W
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Greensboro
89000314 Millwood 32.66127°N Hale Built 1830
87.75136°W

Orrville vicinity
Mollette Two-story main house b
32.166068°N Dallas
Plantation District, South Carolina 
87.12389°W

Moore-Webb- Marion vicinity
10000523 Holmes 32.67411°N Perry Established 1819
Plantation 87.39617°W

Brierfield
73000331 Montebrier 33.04250°N Bibb Built 1853
86.90472°W

Orrville vicinity
Moseley Grove 32.21375°N Dallas Built 1857
87.19804°W

Pine Apple vicinity
Moss Hill 31.88076°N Wilcox Built 1845, an I-house.
86.98663°W
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Sylacauga vicinity Built 1833–59,
Mount Ida 33.32178°N Talladega struck by lightning
86.17081°W and burned 1956.

Sylacauga
Mountain Spring Built 1842, also known a
33.20073°N Talladega
Plantation the HABS.
86.23329°W

Gothic Revival Residenc

Gallion vicinity Alabama Diocesan Episc
New Hope
32.497981°N Hale daughter, Narcissa Eliza
Plantation
87.713593°W of Alfred Hatch, whose d
inherited it after.[11][12]

Auburn
72000163 Noble Hall 32.63972°N Lee Built 1854
85.46528°W

Greensboro
80000686 Oak Grove 32.75194°N Hale Built 1824, destroyed 19
87.67806°W

Co-owned by H. A. Tayl

Uniontown vicinity
Oakland Grimshaw is documente
32.519767°N Hale & Perry
Plantation and 28. William gave the
87.537211°W
husband Thomas Munfo
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Tuscumbia vicinity
76000319 The Oaks 34.67417°N Colbert Built 1818
87.59333°W

Selma
The Oaks 32.39044°N Dallas Built c.1850
87.08795°W

Livingston vicinity
Oak Manor 32.55255°N Sumter Built 1860, now ruinous
88.13711°W

Huntsville
93000598 Oak Place 34.74435°N Madison Built 1840
86.56424°W

Emelle
73000367 Oakhurst 32.77916°N Sumter Built 1854
88.26833°W

Huntsville
77000212 Oaklawn 34.76052°N Madison Built 1844
86.57730°W

Sylacauga
Built 1835, 1855, 1935.
Odena Plantation 33.20797°N Talladega
Rd S., and 2013 County
86.28113°W
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Talladega vicinity
86001157 Orange Vale 33.35601°N Talladega Built 1852
86.16819°W

Bessemer
Owen Plantation
76000330 33.34750°N Jefferson Built 1838
House
86.98327°W

Furman vicinity
Patience
32.01497°N Wilcox Built 1842
Plantation
86.97286°W

Lowndesboro
73000356 The Pillars 32.27117°N Lowndes Built 1856, contributing
86.60995°W

Pittsview
Samuel R. Pitts
92000819 32.17861°N Russell Built 1846
Plantation
85.15778°W

Uniontown
84000717 Pitts' Folly 32.44506°N Perry Built 1852–53
87.50830°W
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Canton Bend
85001501 Pleasant Ridge 32.05306°N Wilcox Built 1842, a brick I-hou
87.35028°W

Wheeler
77000209 Pond Spring 34.65111°N Lawrence Built 1818–80
87.25239°W

Dayton
William Poole
94000687 32.34944°N Marengo Built 1848
House
87.64472°W

Leighton vicinity
86000997 Preuit Oaks 34.67528°N Colbert Built 1847
87.50972°W

Oak Hill
Ramsey-Jones-
31.91876°N Wilcox Built 1837–1838, an I-ho
Bonner House
87.07777°W

Prairieville
Randolph
94000697 32.50583°N Hale Built 1850
Plantation
87.68722°W
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Marion
92001844 Reverie 32.631667°N Perry Built c. 1858, contributin
87.320278°W

Courtland vicinity
Rocky Hill Castle 34.68842°N Lawrence Built 1858–61, destroyed
87.33328°W

Camden
River Bluff
93000421 32.04556°N Wilcox Built 1845
Plantation
87.33472°W

Selma
79000384 Riverdale 32.43389°N Dallas Built 1829
86.86972°W

Faunsdale
Roseland Built 1835–50s, destroye
93001476 32.44268°N Marengo
Plantation Hall.
87.57219°W

Millers Ferry vicinity
Rosemary
32.09760°N Wilcox Built c.1858
Plantation
87.40587°W
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Built in stages from 1832

Forkland of Edgefield District, So
71000099 Rosemount 32.67111°N Greene gave this 3,000-acre (1,2
87.90778°W main house situated upon
Glover, in the early 1830

Lowndesboro vicinity
73000356 Rosewood 32.30583°N Lowndes Built 1855, contributing
86.58916°W

Plantation founded by Jo
Carolina, circa 1816 in a
the present. It passed to h
their relative, Mark Harw
Carolina, in 1845 in orde
Sandy Hill Boykin (Gee's Bend) family and roughly 100 s
(Pettway 32.07301°N Wilcox cook, made the journey o
Plantation) 87.29245°W The main house was raze
property to the Farm Sec
built New Deal type hou
mostly the impoverished
community of Boykin is
"slave village" for the pl

Town Creek
74000418 Saunders Hall 34.72523°N Lawrence Built 1830
87.39159°W

Opelika
78000494 Spring Villa 32.58788°N Lee Built 1850
85.31150°W
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Montgomery
01001411 Stone Plantation 32.35056°N Montgomery Built 1852
86.42528°W

Elm Bluff
Stoutenborough
32.15813°N Dallas Built 1850
Hall
87.060762°W

Opelika
Summers
91000095 32.66803°N Lee Built 1837
Plantation
85.27189°W

Tuscaloosa
85000451 Sylvan Plantation 33.08056°N Tuscaloosa Built 1825
87.70250°W

Akron
73000346 Tanglewood 32.85316°N Hale Built 1859
87.67251°W

Orrville vicinity
Tasso Plantation 32.21336°N Dallas Built 1850s
87.17351°W
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Forkland
84000618 Thornhill 32.68743°N Greene Built 1833, portico adde
87.93191°W

Talladega vicinity
98000104 Thornhill 33.40239°N Talladega Built 1835
86.14264°W

Faunsdale
Tulip Hill 32.44745°N Marengo Home of Andrew Picken
87.64696°W

Sawyerville vicinity
Umbria 32.74847°N Hale Built 1829–50, burned 1
87.72804°W

Pleasant Hill
Underwood Built 1845, also known a
32.16671°N Dallas
Plantation Home[14] and Black Thist
86.92284°W

Furman vicinity
Wakefield 31.99821°N Wilcox Built 1840
86.96256°W

Gallion
94000684 Waldwic 32.48472°N Hale Built 1840–52
87.71379°W
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"A frame residence of ei

forms in that country,"[10
Allenville vicinity
Walnut Grove later bought out by broth
32.493160°N Hale & Marengo
Plantation son John William Tayloe
87.679035°W
Alabama) and married M
Allen, of adjacent Allenv

Sylacauga
86002044 Welch Spring 33.14344°N Talladega Built 1830; Also known
86.38936°W

Uniontown
74000433 Westwood 32.45966°N Perry Built 1836–50
87.51477°W

Camden vicinity
White Columns
31.96075°N Wilcox Built 1860, also known a
Plantation
87.35943°W

Gainestown
Wilson-Finlay
78000484 31.45378°N Clarke Built 1846
House
87.69137°W

Gallion
Windsor Owned by Benjamin Og
32.460860°N Marengo
Plantation by H.A Tayloe}[7][8][10][16]
87.681660°W

Valley Head
87000476 Winston Place 34.568008°N DeKalb Built 1838
85.614901°W
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Gosport
80000683 Woodlands 31.58417°N Clarke Built 1840
87.57333°W

Uniontown Purchased by William H

Woodlawn
32.496684°N Perry sold in 1858. Winney Gr
Plantation
87.409429°W 29 and 32.[8]

Eufaula
Woodlane
06000183 31.84803°N Barbour Built 1852
Plantation
85.17099°W

Canton Bend
Youpon 32.03300°N Wilcox Built 1840
87.36832°W

See also[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has
media related to Plantations
in Alabama.

 History of slavery in Alabama

 List of plantations in the United States

References[edit]
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