Faunsdale Plantation | |
 The main house at Faunsdale Plantation in 2008 | |
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| Location | near Faunsdale, Alabama |
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| Coordinates | 32°26′7.26″N 87°36′9.28″W / 32.4353500°N 87.6025778°W |
| Area | 13 acres (5.3 ha) |
| Built | 1844[2] |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Carpenter Gothic |
| MPS | Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 93000602[1] |
| Added to NRHP | 13 July 1993[1] |
Faunsdale Plantation is a historic slave plantation near the town of Faunsdale, Alabama, United States. This plantation is in the Black Belt, a section of the state developed for cotton plantations. Until the U.S. Civil War, planters held as many as 186 enslaved African Americans as laborers to raise cotton as a commodity crop.
A number of the workers' former cabins remain standing, and they are among the most significant examples of slave housing in Marengo County. These cabins are also among the last remaining examples of this building type in the state of Alabama.[2][3]
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 13 July 1993, as a part of the historic district associated with the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.[1]
- ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b Marengo County Heritage Book Committee: The Heritage of Marengo County, Alabama, pages 17-18. Clanton, Alabama: Heritage Publishing Consultants, 2000. ISBN 1-891647-58-X
- ^ Cooper, Chip, Harry J. Knopke, and Robert S. Gamble. Silent in the Land, p. 112. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: CKM Press, 1993. ISBN 0-9636713-0-8.