List of plantations in Alabama
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.
A 2014 article listed numerous plantation houses that were endangered or had already been lost.
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 | |
Not listed on national or state register |
Historic register/ Reference number | Name | Image | Locality | County | Notes |
85002925 | Aduston Hall | Gainesville | 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 | Marengo | Co-owned by H. A. Tayloe, William Henry Tayloe and Benjamin Ogle Tayloe. Later party of Cuba Plantation. | ||
Alpine | Alpine | Talladega | Built for Nathaniel Welch, a native of Virginia, by Almarion Devalco Bell in 1858. | ||
93000598 | Altwood | Faunsdale | Marengo | Built in 1836 for Richard Henry Adams and Anna Carter Harrison, both natives of Virginia. | |
70000103 | Arlington | Birmingham | 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 | Hale | Built for John Atkins, a native of Virginia, in 1840. | |
94000686 | Augusta Sledge House | Newbern | Hale | Built in the cottage orné style in 1855. It was razed during the 21st century. | |
73000337 | Barton Hall | Cherokee | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Hale | Built 1840, Now known as Myrtle Hill. | |
94000685 | Borden Oaks | Greensboro | Hale | Built 1835–37 | |
86001544 | Bride's Hill | Wheeler | Lawrence | Built 1830 | |
74000396 | Buena Vista | Prattville | Autauga | Built c.1822–1844 | |
Bullard Plantation | Perdue Hill | Monroe | Built 1858-59 | ||
93000763 | Cedar Crest | Faunsdale | Marengo | Built 1850 | |
93000599 | Cedar Grove Plantation | Faunsdale | Marengo | Built 1848 | |
93000600 | Cedar Haven | Faunsdale | Marengo | Built 1850, destroyed during 1990s. | |
Chasley Farms | Franklin | Monroe | Built 1835, rare intact plantation complex. | ||
84000384 | Cherokee Plantation | Fort Payne | DeKalb | Built 1821, with later expansions. | |
85002924 | Colgin Hill | Gainesville | Sumter | Built 1832 | |
Cook Hill | Camden vicinity | Wilcox | Built 1839, an I-house. | ||
95000147 | Countryside | Camden | Wilcox | Built 1855, also known as the Tait-Ervin House | |
89000310 | Creekwood | Creek Stand | Macon | Built 1850 | |
Crumptonia | Crumptonia | Dallas | Built 1855 | ||
93000601 | Cuba Plantation | Faunsdale | Marengo | Built 1850 | |
87001552 | Davidson Plantation | Centreville | Bibb | Built for Samuel Wilson Davidson, a native of North Carolina, in 1837. | |
93001517 | Dellet Plantation | Claiborne | Monroe | Built c.1835–40 | |
Dicksonia | Lowndesboro | Lowndes | Built 1830–56, burned 1939. Rebuilt 1940, burned 1964. | ||
Drish Plantation | Tuscaloosa | Tuscaloosa | Built 1837, remodeled 1855. House is only remnant of plantation, long overtaken by city growth. | ||
99000250 | Dry Fork Plantation | Coy | Wilcox | Built 1832–34 | |
Eden | Carlowville vicinity | Dallas | Built 1830 | ||
73000367 | Edgewood | Montgomery vicinity | Montgomery | Built 1821 | |
Elmwood Platnation | Arcola vicinity | Hale | Elmwood Plantation, Established by George P. Tayloe, 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. | ||
Elm Bluff | Elm Bluff | Dallas | Built 1845 | ||
91001483 | Elm Ridge Plantation | Greensboro | Hale | Built c.1836 | |
99000793 | Everhope Plantation | Eutaw | Greene | Built 1852–53 | |
92000630 | Fairhope Plantation | Uniontown | Perry | Built c.1857 by Joseph Selden, FFV | |
93000602 | Faunsdale Plantation | Faunsdale | 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 | Lauderdale | Built 1830, struck by lightning and burned 1966. | |
72000167 | Gaineswood | Demopolis | Marengo | Built 1843–61 | |
79000402 | Glennville Plantation | Pittsview vicinity | Russell | Built 1840s, contributing property to the Glennville Historic District. | |
80000735 | Glenn-Thompson Plantation | Pittsview | Russell | Built 1837 | |
78000488 | Glencairn | Greensboro | Hale | Built 1835 | |
Grace-Chesnut House | Oak Hill vicinity | Wilcox | Built 1852, an I-house. | ||
82001617 | Grassdale | Eutaw | Greene | Built c.1820. | |
80000364 | Grey Columns | Tuskegee | Macon | Built 1854 | |
87001784 | Alfred Hatch Place at Arcola | Arcola | Hale | Built 1856 | |
94000694 | Hawthorne | Prairieville | Hale | Built 1818–1862 | |
85000452 | Hawthorne | Pine Apple | Wilcox | Built 1854 | |
Dr. William Hughes Plantation | Aliceville vicinity | Pickens | Built from 1845–50, known for its extremely elaborate interior plasterwork. It was razed in 1939. | ||
93001012 | Idlewild | Talladega vicinity | Talladega | Built 1843 | |
Ingleside | Aliceville | Pickens | Built 1849 | ||
70000101 | Ivy Green | Tuscumbia | Colbert | Built 1820 | |
Kenan Plantation | Selma vicinity | Dallas | Built c.1840 | ||
90001318 | Kenworthy Hall | Marion | Perry | Built 1858–60 | |
76000327 | Kirkwood | Eutaw | Greene | Built 1858 | |
Lakewood | Livingston | Sumter | Built 1840 | ||
Larkin Plantation | Uniontown | 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 | Sumter | Built 1840, an I-house. | ||
84000751 | Liberty Hall | Camden | Wilcox | Built 1855 | |
Macon Station | Gallion | Hale | Founded by H. A. Tayloe as a Rail Station on the Selma-Demoplis Line. | ||
Magnolia Crest | Burkville vicinity | Lowndes | Built 1840s | ||
76000355 | Magnolia Green | Seale vicinity | Russell | Built 1840 | |
73000345 | Magnolia Grove | Greensboro | Hale | Built 1840 | |
76000328 | Magnolia Hall | Greensboro | Hale | Built c. 1855, contributing property to the Greensboro Historic District | |
73000356 | Marengo | Lowndesboro | Lowndes | Built 1847, contributing property to Lowndesboro Historic District. | |
82002010 | Marshall's Grove | Selma | Dallas | Built 1840 | |
McMillan Plantation | Orrville vicinity | Dallas | Built 1858 | ||
73000356 | Meadowlawn | Lowndesboro | Lowndes | Built 1853, contributing property to Lowndesboro Historic District. | |
Melrose | McShan vicinity | Pickens | Built 1840 | ||
88003123 | Merry Oaks | Sandy Ridge | Lowndes | Built 1860 | |
89000314 | Millwood | Greensboro | Hale | Built 1830 | |
Mollette Plantation | Orrville vicinity | Dallas | Two-story main house built for William Page Mollette, a native Beaufort District, South Carolina in 1835. | ||
10000523 | Moore-Webb-Holmes Plantation | Marion vicinity | Perry | Established 1819 | |
73000331 | Montebrier | Brierfield | Bibb | Built 1853 | |
Moseley Grove | Orrville vicinity | Dallas | Built 1857 | ||
Moss Hill | Pine Apple vicinity | Wilcox | Built 1845, an I-house. | ||
Mount Ida | Sylacauga vicinity | Talladega | Built 1833–59, struck by lightning and burned 1956. | ||
Mountain Spring Plantation | Sylacauga | Talladega | Built 1842, also known as the Oden-Bledsoe-Kelly Plantation. Recorded by the HABS. | ||
New Hope Plantation | Gallion vicinity | 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. | ||
72000163 | Noble Hall | Auburn | Lee | Built 1854 | |
80000686 | Oak Grove | Greensboro | Hale | Built 1824, destroyed 1980s. | |
Oakland Plantation | Uniontown vicinity | 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. | ||
76000319 | The Oaks | Tuscumbia vicinity | Colbert | Built 1818 | |
The Oaks | Selma | Dallas | Built c.1850 | ||
Oak Manor | Livingston vicinity | Sumter | Built 1860, now ruinous. | ||
93000598 | Oak Place | Huntsville | Madison | Built 1840 | |
73000367 | Oakhurst | Emelle | Sumter | Built 1854 | |
77000212 | Oaklawn | Huntsville | Madison | Built 1844 | |
Odena Plantation | Sylacauga | 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 | Talladega | Built 1852 | |
76000330 | Owen Plantation House | Bessemer | Jefferson | Built 1838 | |
Patience Plantation | Furman vicinity | Wilcox | Built 1842 | ||
73000356 | The Pillars | Lowndesboro | Lowndes | Built 1856, contributing property to Lowndesboro Historic District. | |
92000819 | Samuel R. Pitts Plantation | Pittsview | Russell | Built 1846 | |
84000717 | Pitts' Folly | Uniontown | Perry | Built 1852–53 | |
85001501 | Pleasant Ridge | Canton Bend | Wilcox | Built 1842, a brick I-house. | |
77000209 | Pond Spring | Wheeler | Lawrence | Built 1818–80 | |
94000687 | William Poole House | Dayton | Marengo | Built 1848 | |
86000997 | Preuit Oaks | Leighton vicinity | Colbert | Built 1847 | |
Ramsey-Jones-Bonner House | Oak Hill | Wilcox | Built 1837–1838, an I-house. | ||
94000697 | Randolph Plantation | Prairieville | Hale | Built 1850 | |
92001844 | Reverie | Marion | Perry | Built c. 1858, contributing property to the West Marion Historic District. | |
Rocky Hill Castle | Courtland vicinity | Lawrence | Built 1858–61, destroyed in 1961 | ||
93000421 | River Bluff Plantation | Camden | Wilcox | Built 1845 | |
79000384 | Riverdale | Selma | Dallas | Built 1829 | |
93001476 | Roseland Plantation | Faunsdale | Marengo | Built 1835–50s, destroyed in 1980s. Several outbuildings now at Sturdivant Hall. | |
Rosemary Plantation | Millers Ferry vicinity | Wilcox | Built c.1858 | ||
71000099 | Rosemount | Forkland | 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 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 | Lowndes | Built 1855, contributing property to Lowndesboro Historic District. | |
Sandy Hill | Boykin | 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 | Lawrence | Built 1830 | |
78000494 | Spring Villa | Opelika | Lee | Built 1850 | |
01001411 | Stone Plantation | Montgomery | Montgomery | Built 1852 | |
Stoutenborough Hall | Elm Bluff | Dallas | Built 1850 | ||
91000095 | Summers Plantation | Opelika | Lee | Built 1837 | |
85000451 | Sylvan Plantation | Tuscaloosa | Tuscaloosa | Built 1825 | |
73000346 | Tanglewood | Akron | Hale | Built 1859 | |
Tasso Plantation | Orrville vicinity | Dallas | Built 1850s | ||
84000618 | Thornhill | Forkland | Greene | Built 1833, portico added c.1850. | |
98000104 | Thornhill | Talladega vicinity | Talladega | Built 1835 | |
Tulip Hill | Faunsdale | Marengo | Home of Andrew Pickens Calhoun | ||
Umbria | Sawyerville vicinity | Hale | Built 1829–50, burned 1973. | ||
Underwood Plantation | Pleasant Hill | Dallas | Built 1845, also known as the Green Underwood House, Underwood-Mayo Home and Black Thistle | ||
Wakefield | Furman vicinity | Wilcox | Built 1840 | ||
94000684 | Waldwic | Gallion | Hale | Built 1840–52 | |
Walnut Grove Plantation | Allenvillevicinity | 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 and married Miss Lucie Randolph of "Oakleigh" plantation. B.M. Allen, of adjecent Allenville, later purchased the property. | ||
86002044 | Welch Spring | Sylacauga | Talladega | Built 1830; Also known as the Welch-Averiett House | |
74000433 | Westwood | Uniontown | Perry | Built 1836–50 | |
White Columns Plantation | Camden vicinity | Wilcox | Built 1860, also known as the Tait-Starr Plantation | ||
78000484 | Wilson-Finlay House | Gainestown | Clarke | Built 1846 | |
Windsor Plantation | Gallion | Marengo | Owned by Benjamin Ogle Tayloe and Edward Thornton Tayloe, managed by H.A Tayloe |