Battersea (Prairieville, Alabama)
Appearance
Battersea | |
Nearest city | Prairieville, Alabama |
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Coordinates | 32°30′37″N 87°42′11″W / 32.51028°N 87.70306°W |
Built | 1845 |
Architectural style | mid-19th Century Revival |
MPS | Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission |
NRHP reference No. | 94000698[1] |
Added to NRHP | July 7, 1994 |
Battersea is a historic plantation house in Prairieville, Alabama. The house was built from 1820 to 1845 by the Vaughan family from Petersburg, Virginia and served as an early stagecoach stop.[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district on July 7, 1994, as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.[1][3]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ Marengo County Heritage Book Committee (2000). The heritage of Marengo County, Alabama. Clanton, Alabama: Heritage Publishing Consultants. p. 14. ISBN 1-891647-58-X.
- ^ Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings MPS NRIS Database, National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 2 December 2008.
Categories:
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
- National Register of Historic Places in Hale County, Alabama
- Historic districts in Hale County, Alabama
- Houses completed in 1845
- Plantation houses in Alabama
- Houses in Hale County, Alabama
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
- Alabama Registered Historic Place stubs
- Alabama building and structure stubs
- United States plantation stubs