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]
A 2014 article listed numerous plantation houses that were endangered or had already been lost.[5]
| Color key | Historic register listing | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Historic register/ Reference number | Name | Image | Locality | County | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85002925 | Aduston Hall | Gainesville 32.8132°N -88.1593°W | Sumter | Built from 1844–46 for Amos Travis, a native of Georgia. It is a major contributing property to the Gainesville Historic District. | ||
| Adventure Plantation | Faunsdale vicinity 32.4449°N -87.647°W | Marengo | Co-owned by H. A. Tayloe, William Henry Tayloe and Benjamin Ogle Tayloe. Later part of Cuba Plantation.[6] [7] | |||
| Alpine | Alpine 33.3511°N -86.2372°W | Talladega | Built for Nathaniel Welch, a native of Virginia, by Almarion Devalco Bell in 1858. | |||
| 93000598 | Altwood | Faunsdale 32.4253°N -87.6812°W | Marengo | Built in 1836 for Richard Henry Adams and Anna Carter Harrison, both natives of Virginia. | ||
| 70000103 | Arlington | Birmingham 33.4999°N -86.8388°W | Jefferson | Built from 1845–50 for William S. Mudd, a native of Kentucky. The plantation was in the community of Elyton prior to the American Civil War. It was used as a headquarters by federal troops during the war. The plantation and community were eventually absorbed by Birmingham, a city that Mudd helped establish after the war. | ||
| 94000690 | Atkins' Ridge | Greensboro 32.6907°N -87.5767°W | Hale | Built for John Atkins, a native of Virginia, in 1840. | ||
| 94000686 | Augusta Sledge House | Newbern 32.5197°N -87.5689°W | Hale | Built in the cottage orné style in 1855. It was razed during the 21st century. | ||
| 73000337 | Barton Hall | Cherokee 34.7508°N -88.0027°W | Colbert | Listed as a National Historic Landmark, this house is considered to be an "unusually sophisticated Greek Revival style plantation house". It was completed in 1849 by Armstead Barton, a native of Tennessee. | ||
| 94000698 | Battersea | Prairieville 32.5103°N -87.7031°W | Hale | One of several contiguous Vaughan family plantations. The Vaughans were natives of Petersburg, Virginia. The main house began as a log house during the 1820s, but was expanded and completed circa 1845. | ||
| 72000164 | Belle Mina | Belle Mina 34.6448°N -86.8808°W | Limestone | One of the earliest plantation houses with a monumental portico in the state, Belle Mina was built from 1826–35 for Alabama's second governor, Thomas Bibb. Bibb was a native of Amelia County, Virginia. | ||
| 82002003 | Belle Mont | Tuscumbia vicinity 34.6617°N -87.6669°W | Colbert | Built between 1828 and 1832 for Dr. Alexander W. Mitchell, a native of Virginia. Considered by architectural scholars to be a clear example of Thomas Jefferson's influence upon the architecture of the early United States. | ||
| Belvoir | Pleasant Hill vicinity 32.2028°N -86.9618°W | Dallas | This plantation was established in 1825 by Reuben Saffold II, a native of Wilkes County, Georgia. The current main house was built circa 1845. | |||
| 94000692 | Bermuda Hill | Prairieville 32.5301°N -87.6942°W | Hale | Although the exact builder is unclear, the house was built circa 1845. The property was owned by William W. Manning, a native Montgomery, who sold it in 1845 to his brother-in-law, William Weeden, a native of Madison County. | ||
| 82002014 | Boligee Hill | Boligee 32.7597°N -87.9889°W | Hale | Built 1840, Now known as Myrtle Hill. | ||
| 94000685 | Borden Oaks | Greensboro 32.7179°N -87.6893°W | Hale | Built 1835–37 | ||
| 86001544 | Bride's Hill | Wheeler 34.6702°N -87.2445°W | Lawrence | Built 1830 | ||
| 74000396 | Buena Vista | Prattville 32.4244°N -86.4519°W | Autauga | Built c.1822–1844 | ||
| Bullard Plantation | Perdue Hill 31.5056°N -87.5317°W | Monroe | Built 1858–59 | |||
| 93000763 | Cedar Crest | Faunsdale 32.4275°N -87.6604°W | Marengo | Built 1850 | ||
| 93000599 | Cedar Grove Plantation | Faunsdale 32.4478°N -87.5758°W | Marengo | Built 1848 | ||
| 93000600 | Cedar Haven | Faunsdale 32.4177°N -87.5869°W | Marengo | Built 1850, destroyed during 1990s. | ||
| Chasley Farms | Franklin 31.7047°N -87.4565°W | Monroe | Built 1835, rare intact plantation complex. | |||
| 84000384 | Cherokee Plantation | Fort Payne 34.4871°N -85.6718°W | DeKalb | Built 1821, with later expansions. | ||
| 85002924 | Colgin Hill | Gainesville 32.8092°N -88.1553°W | Sumter | Built 1832 | ||
| Cook Hill | Camden vicinity 31.9873°N -87.3865°W | Wilcox | Built 1839, an I-house. | |||
| 95000147 | Countryside | Camden 31.9718°N -87.3774°W | Wilcox | Built 1855, also known as the Tait-Ervin House | ||
| 89000310 | Creekwood | Creek Stand 32.3°N -85.4794°W | Macon | Built 1850 | ||
| Crumptonia | Crumptonia 32.214°N -87.289°W | Dallas | Built 1855 | |||
| 93000601 | Cuba Plantation | Faunsdale 32.4449°N -87.647°W | Marengo | Built 1850 | ||
| 87001552 | Davidson Plantation | Centreville 32.9428°N -87.1336°W | Bibb | Built for Samuel Wilson Davidson, a native of North Carolina, in 1837. | ||
| 93001517 | Dellet Plantation | Claiborne 31.5388°N -87.5075°W | Monroe | Built c.1835–40 | ||
| Dicksonia | Lowndesboro 32.258°N -86.6087°W | Lowndes | Built 1830–56, burned 1939. Rebuilt 1940, burned 1964. | |||
| Drish Plantation | Tuscaloosa 33.1976°N -87.5619°W | Tuscaloosa | Built 1837, remodeled 1855. House is only remnant of plantation, long overtaken by city growth. | |||
| 99000250 | Dry Fork Plantation | Coy 31.9017°N -87.3606°W | Wilcox | Built 1832–34 | ||
| Eden | Carlowville vicinity 32.1362°N -87.2496°W | Dallas | Built 1830 | |||
| 73000367 | Edgewood | Montgomery vicinity 32.3468°N -86.2866°W | Montgomery | Built 1821 | ||
| Elmwood Plantation | Arcola vicinity 32.5431°N -87.7914°W | Elmwood Plantation, Established by George P. Tayloe, initially 1,140 acres, inherited by his son Col. George Edward Tayloe, CSA, in 1858. Owned by Desha Smith, of Mobile, Alabama, circa 1870, sister of Alva Erskine Stirling Smith Belmont wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt then Oliver H. P. Belmont, mother of the 9th Duchess of Marlboro.[8] [9] | ||||
| Elm Bluff | Elm Bluff 32.1707°N -87.1035°W | Dallas | Built 1845 | |||
| 91001483 | Elm Ridge Plantation | Greensboro 32.7184°N -87.634°W | Hale | Built c.1836 | ||
| 99000793 | Everhope Plantation | Eutaw 32.9016°N -87.9701°W | Greene | Built 1852–53 | ||
| 92000630 | Fairhope Plantation | Uniontown 32.4453°N -87.4908°W | Perry | Built c.1857 by Joseph Selden, FFV | ||
| 93000602 | Faunsdale Plantation | Faunsdale 32.4354°N -87.6028°W | Marengo | Patented in 1832 by H. A. Tayloe of nearby "Walnut Grove Plantation" and built 1844 by Dr. Thomas Alexander Harrison. Extant slave quarters still on property. | ||
| 97001166 | Forks of Cypress | Florence 34.845°N -87.7256°W | Lauderdale | Built 1830, struck by lightning and burned 1966. | ||
| 72000167 | Gaineswood | Demopolis 32.5087°N -87.8352°W | Marengo | Built 1843–61 | ||
| 79000402 | Glennville Plantation | Pittsview vicinity 32.1145°N -85.1739°W | Russell | Built 1840s, contributing property to the Glennville Historic District. | ||
| 80000735 | Glenn-Thompson Plantation | Pittsview 32.1367°N -85.1517°W | Russell | Built 1837 | ||
| 78000488 | Glencairn | Greensboro 32.7003°N -87.5958°W | Hale | Built 1835 | ||
| Grace-Chesnut House | Oak Hill vicinity 31.9357°N -87.0515°W | Wilcox | Built 1852, an I-house. | |||
| 82001617 | Grassdale | Eutaw 32.8617°N -87.9239°W | Greene | Built c.1820. | ||
| 80000364 | Grey Columns | Tuskegee 32.4264°N -85.705°W | Macon | Built 1854 | ||
| 89000162 | Greenwood | Alexandria | Calhoun | Built 1842–1850; also known as Greenwood Plantation | ||
| 87001784 | Alfred Hatch Place at Arcola | Arcola 32.5666°N -87.77°W | Hale | Built 1856 | ||
| 94000694 | Hawthorne | Prairieville 32.5128°N -87.6984°W | Hale | Built 1818–1862 | ||
| 85000452 | Hawthorne | Pine Apple 31.8801°N -86.9891°W | Wilcox | Built 1854 | ||
| Dr. William Hughes Plantation | Aliceville vicinity 33.0889°N -88.0668°W | Pickens | Built from 1845–50, known for its extremely elaborate interior plasterwork. It was razed in 1939. | |||
| 93001012 | Idlewild | Talladega vicinity 33.5103°N -86.0458°W | Talladega | Built 1843 | ||
| Ingleside | Aliceville 33.1189°N -88.1467°W | Pickens | Built 1849 | |||
| 70000101 | Ivy Green | Tuscumbia 34.7394°N -87.7067°W | Colbert | Built 1820 | ||
| Kenan Plantation | Selma vicinity 32.4585°N -87.0383°W | Dallas | Built c.1840 | |||
| 90001318 | Kenworthy Hall | Marion 32.6351°N -87.3522°W | Perry | Built 1858–60 | ||
| 76000327 | Kirkwood | Eutaw 32.8467°N -87.8958°W | Greene | Built 1858 | ||
| Lakewood | Livingston 32.5875°N -88.1837°W | Sumter | Built 1840 | |||
| Larkin Plantation | Tayloe, Alabama 32.4341°N -87.4378°W | Perry | Founded by John Larkin then purchased by William Henry Tayloe who expanded it to 2,085 acres. Winney Grimshaw is documented working here from ages 33 to 40. William lived there for sometime during the Civil War leaving Mount Airy, in Virginia to be tended to by his son Henry Augustine Tayloe II, whom eventually inherited it and this plantation. | |||
| Lee Haven | Livingston vicinity 32.4956°N -88.1206°W | Sumter | Built 1840, an I-house. | |||
| 84000751 | Liberty Hall | Camden 31.9719°N -87.3367°W | Wilcox | Built 1855 | ||
| Macon Station | Gallion 32.498°N -87.7136°W | Founded by H. A. Tayloe as a Rail Station on the Selma-Demoplis Line. | ||||
| Magnolia Crest | Burkville vicinity 32.3198°N -86.5251°W | Lowndes | Built 1840s | |||
| 76000355 | Magnolia Green | Seale vicinity 32.346°N -85.1324°W | Russell | Built 1840 | ||
| 73000345 | Magnolia Grove | Greensboro 32.7043°N -87.6079°W | Hale | Built 1840 | ||
| 76000328 | Magnolia Hall | Greensboro 32.7022°N -87.5903°W | Hale | Built c. 1855, contributing property to the Greensboro Historic District | ||
| 73000356 | Marengo | Lowndesboro 32.284°N -86.6092°W | Lowndes | Built 1847, contributing property to Lowndesboro Historic District. | ||
| 82002010 | Marshall's Grove | Selma 32.4661°N -87.0064°W | Dallas | Built 1840 | ||
| Meadow Hill Plantation | Siddonsville | Marengo | Tayloe Family Plantation, Canebrake. Later part of Sidson/Siddons Plantation | |||
| McMillan Plantation | Orrville vicinity 32.1711°N -87.1825°W | Dallas | Built 1858 | |||
| 73000356 | Meadowlawn | Lowndesboro 32.2773°N -86.6105°W | Lowndes | Built 1853, contributing property to Lowndesboro Historic District. | ||
| Melrose | McShan vicinity 33.4019°N -88.1199°W | Pickens | Built 1840 | |||
| 88003123 | Merry Oaks | Sandy Ridge 32.0247°N -86.4517°W | Lowndes | Built 1860 | ||
| 89000314 | Millwood | Greensboro 32.6613°N -87.7514°W | Hale | Built 1830 | ||
| Molett House | Orrville vicinity 32.1661°N -87.1239°W | Dallas | Built 1819. The oldest house in Alabama owned and occupied by the family that built it. | |||
| 10000523 | Moore-Webb-Holmes Plantation | Marion vicinity 32.6741°N -87.3962°W | Perry | Established 1819 | ||
| 73000331 | Montebrier | Brierfield 33.0425°N -86.9047°W | Bibb | Built 1853 | ||
| Moseley Grove | Orrville vicinity 32.2138°N -87.198°W | Dallas | Built 1857 | |||
| Moss Hill | Pine Apple vicinity 31.8808°N -86.9866°W | Wilcox | Built 1845, an I-house. | |||
| Mount Ida | Sylacauga vicinity 33.3218°N -86.1708°W | Talladega | Built 1833–59, struck by lightning and burned 1956. | |||
| Mountain Spring Plantation | Sylacauga 33.2007°N -86.2333°W | Talladega | Built 1842, also known as the Oden-Bledsoe-Kelly Plantation. Recorded by the HABS. | |||
| New Hope Plantation | Gallion vicinity 32.498°N -87.7136°W | Hale | Gothic Revival Residence of Henry Augustine Tayloe Secretary of the Alabama Diocesan Episcopal Convention. Henry gave this planation to his daughter, Narcissa Elizabeth Tayloe, who married Benjamin F Hatch, son of Alfred Hatch, whose daughter Minnie Hatch Macartney Pearson inherited it after.[10] | |||
| 72000163 | Noble Hall | Auburn 32.6397°N -85.4653°W | Lee | Built 1854 | ||
| 80000686 | Oak Grove | Greensboro 32.7519°N -87.6781°W | Hale | Built 1824, destroyed 1980s. | ||
| Oakland Plantation | Uniontown vicinity 32.5198°N -87.5372°W | Hale & Perry | Co-owned by H. A. Tayloe and William Henry Tayloe. Winney Grimshaw is documented working on this plantation between the ages of 19 and 28. William gave the 2,300 acre farm to his daughter Emma, and husband Thomas Munford.[11] | |||
| 76000319 | The Oaks | Tuscumbia vicinity 34.6742°N -87.5933°W | Colbert | Built 1818 | ||
| The Oaks | Selma 32.3904°N -87.088°W | Dallas | Built c.1850 | |||
| Oak Manor | Livingston vicinity 32.5526°N -88.1371°W | Sumter | Built 1860, now ruinous. | |||
| 93000598 | Oak Place | Huntsville 34.7444°N -86.5642°W | Madison | Built 1840 | ||
| 73000367 | Oakhurst | Emelle 32.7792°N -88.2683°W | Sumter | Built 1854 | ||
| 77000212 | Oaklawn | Huntsville 34.7605°N -86.5773°W | Madison | Built 1844 | ||
| Odena Plantation | Sylacauga 33.208°N -86.2811°W | Talladega | Built 1835, 1855, 1935. Also known as Oden-Sanford Farm. 3037 Odena Rd S., and 2013 County Rd 45/Old Sylacauga Hwy, Sylacauga. | |||
| 86001157 | Orange Vale | Talladega vicinity 33.356°N -86.1682°W | Talladega | Built 1852 | ||
| 76000330 | Owen Plantation House | Bessemer 33.3475°N -86.9833°W | Jefferson | Built 1838 | ||
| Patience Plantation | Furman vicinity 32.015°N -86.9729°W | Wilcox | Built 1842 | |||
| 73000356 | The Pillars | Lowndesboro 32.2712°N -86.61°W | Lowndes | Built 1856, contributing property to Lowndesboro Historic District. | ||
| 92000819 | Samuel R. Pitts Plantation | Pittsview 32.1786°N -85.1578°W | Russell | Built 1846 | ||
| 84000717 | Pitts' Folly | Uniontown 32.4451°N -87.5083°W | Perry | Built 1852–53 | ||
| 85001501 | Pleasant Ridge | Canton Bend 32.0531°N -87.3503°W | Wilcox | Built 1842, a brick I-house. | ||
| 77000209 | Pond Spring | Wheeler 34.6511°N -87.2524°W | Lawrence | Built 1818–80 | ||
| 94000687 | William Poole House | Dayton 32.3494°N -87.6447°W | Marengo | Built 1848 | ||
| 86000997 | Preuit Oaks | Leighton vicinity 34.6753°N -87.5097°W | Colbert | Built 1847 | ||
| Ramsey-Jones-Bonner House | Oak Hill 31.9188°N -87.0778°W | Wilcox | Built 1837–1838, an I-house. | |||
| 94000697 | Randolph Plantation | Prairieville 32.5058°N -87.6872°W | Hale | Built 1850 | ||
| 92001844 | Reverie | Marion 32.6317°N -87.3203°W | Perry | Built c. 1858, contributing property to the West Marion Historic District. | ||
| Rocky Hill Castle | Courtland vicinity 34.6884°N -87.3333°W | Lawrence | Built 1858–61, destroyed in 1961 | |||
| 93000421 | River Bluff Plantation | Camden 32.0456°N -87.3347°W | Wilcox | Built 1845 | ||
| 79000384 | Riverdale | Selma 32.4339°N -86.8697°W | Dallas | Built 1829 | ||
| 93001476 | Roseland Plantation | Faunsdale 32.4427°N -87.5722°W | Marengo | Built 1835–50s, destroyed in 1980s. Several outbuildings now at Sturdivant Hall. | ||
| Rosemary Plantation | Millers Ferry vicinity 32.0976°N -87.4059°W | Wilcox | Built c.1858 | |||
| 71000099 | Rosemount | Forkland 32.6711°N -87.9078°W | Greene | Built in stages from 1832 through the 1850s. Allen Glover, a native of Edgefield District, South Carolina and resident of nearby Demopolis, gave this 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) estate, along with the beginnings of the main house situated upon its star-shaped hill, to his son, Williamson Allen Glover, in the early 1830s. | ||
| 73000356 | Rosewood | Lowndesboro vicinity 32.3058°N -86.5892°W | Lowndes | Built 1855, contributing property to Lowndesboro Historic District. | ||
| Sandy Hill (Pettway Plantation) | Boykin (Gee's Bend) 32.073°N -87.2925°W | Wilcox | Plantation founded by Joseph Gee, a native of Halifax County, North Carolina, circa 1816 in an Alabama River bend that retains his last name to the present. It passed to his nephews upon his death. They transferred it to their relative, Mark Harwell Pettway, also a native of Halifax County North Carolina, in 1845 in order to settle a $29,000 debt. Pettway brought his family and roughly 100 slaves here in 1846. All of the slaves, except for the cook, made the journey on foot. The main house was built around this time. The main house was razed sometime soon after the last owner sold the property to the Farm Security Administration in 1937. The administration built New Deal type houses and sold the tracks of farmland to what were mostly the impoverished descendants of the former Pettway slaves. The community of Boykin is at the same approximate location as the original "slave village" for the plantation. | |||
| 74000418 | Saunders Hall | Town Creek 34.7252°N -87.3916°W | Lawrence | Built 1830 | ||
| Sidson (Siddons) Plantation | Siddonsville | Marengo | Tayloe Family Plantation, Canebrake. Owned by B.O. Tayloe | |||
| 78000494 | Spring Villa | Opelika 32.5879°N -85.3115°W | Lee | Built 1850 | ||
| 01001411 | Stone Plantation | Montgomery 32.3506°N -86.4253°W | Montgomery | Built 1852 | ||
| Stoutenborough Hall | Elm Bluff 32.1581°N -87.0608°W | Dallas | Built 1850 | |||
| 91000095 | Summers Plantation | Opelika 32.668°N -85.2719°W | Lee | Built 1837 | ||
| 85000451 | Sylvan Plantation | Tuscaloosa 33.0806°N -87.7025°W | Tuscaloosa | Built 1825 | ||
| 73000346 | Tanglewood | Akron 32.8532°N -87.6725°W | Hale | Built 1859 | ||
| Tasso Plantation | Orrville vicinity 32.2134°N -87.1735°W | Dallas | Built 1850s | |||
| 84000618 | Thornhill | Forkland 32.6874°N -87.9319°W | Greene | Built 1833, portico added c.1850. | ||
| 98000104 | Thornhill | Talladega vicinity 33.4024°N -86.1426°W | Talladega | Built 1835 | ||
| Tulip Hill | Faunsdale 32.4475°N -87.647°W | Marengo | Home of Andrew Pickens Calhoun | |||
| Umbria | Sawyerville vicinity 32.7485°N -87.728°W | Hale | Built 1829–50, burned 1973. | |||
| Underwood Plantation | Pleasant Hill 32.1667°N -86.9228°W | Dallas | Built 1845, also known as the Green Underwood House, Underwood-Mayo Home[12] and Black Thistle | |||
| Wakefield | Furman vicinity 31.9982°N -86.9626°W | Wilcox | Built 1840 | |||
| 94000684 | Waldwic | Gallion 32.4847°N -87.7138°W | Hale | Built 1840–52 | ||
| Walnut Grove Plantation | Allenville vicinity 32.4932°N -87.679°W | Hale & Marengo | "A frame residence of eight rooms, one of the first homes of so pretentious forms in that country," built by H. A. Tayloe, who co-owned it and was later bought out by brother George P Tayloe, who then passed it on to his son John William Tayloe, who designed Hawthorne (Prairieville, Alabama) and married Miss Lucie Randolph of "Oakleigh" plantation. B.M. Allen, of adjacent Allenville, later purchased the property.[13] | |||
| 86002044 | Welch Spring | Sylacauga 33.1434°N -86.3894°W | Talladega | Built 1830; Also known as the Welch-Averiett House | ||
| 74000433 | Westwood | Uniontown 32.4597°N -87.5148°W | Perry | Built 1836–50 | ||
| White Columns Plantation | Camden vicinity 31.9608°N -87.3594°W | Wilcox | Built 1860, also known as the Tait-Starr Plantation | |||
| 78000484 | Wilson-Finlay House | Gainestown 31.4538°N -87.6914°W | Clarke | Built 1846 | ||
| Windsor Plantation | Gallion 32.4609°N -87.6817°W | Marengo | Owned by Benjamin Ogle Tayloe and Edward Thornton Tayloe, managed by H.A Tayloe[14] | |||
| 87000476 | Winston Place | Valley Head 34.568°N -85.6149°W | DeKalb | Built 1838 | ||
| 80000683 | Woodlands | Gosport 31.5842°N -87.5733°W | Clarke | Built 1840 | ||
| Woodlawn Plantation | Uniontown 32.4967°N -87.4094°W | Perry | Purchased by William Henry Tayloe in 1854, consisted of 1,200 acres and sold in 1858. Winney Grimshaw is documented working here between ages 29 and 32. | |||
| 06000183 | Woodlane Plantation | Eufaula 31.848°N -85.171°W | Barbour | Built 1852 | ||
| Youpon | Canton Bend 32.033°N -87.3683°W | Wilcox | Built 1840 |