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Dogtrot houses or open-passage houses had a breezeway between the two living spaces. [11] Cabins with one room and a loft above were known as one up and one down. [12] A former slave cabin near Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, still in use as a residence and photographed c. 1936 for the Slave Narratives project of the Works Progress Administration
Rosemount (Forkland, Alabama) Boxwood Plantation Slave Quarter, Courtland, AL, NRHP-listed. Dudley Snow House, Alabama. Faunsdale Plantation, Alabama. Glencairn (Greensboro, Alabama) Magnolia Grove (Greensboro, Alabama) First National Bank (Huntsville, Alabama) Boxwood Plantation Slave Quarter, Alabama.
Enslaved blacksmith Isaac Granger Jefferson recalled that Hemings was "mighty near white . . . very handsome, long straight hair down her back." Her room — 14 foot, 8 inch-by-13 foot — went ...
The Seward Plantation is a historic Southern plantation-turned-ranch in Independence, Texas. Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the 20th century. The complex included everything from the main residence down to the pens for livestock. Until the abolition of slavery, such ...
Shirley Plantation. / 37.34194°N 77.26083°W / 37.34194; -77.26083. Shirley Plantation is an estate on the north bank of the James River in Charles City County, Virginia. It is located on scenic byway State Route 5, between Richmond and Williamsburg. It is the oldest active plantation in Virginia, settled in 1613 and is also the oldest ...
Tuckahoe (plantation) / 37.570472°N 77.653167°W / 37.570472; -77.653167. Tuckahoe, also known as Tuckahoe Plantation, or Historic Tuckahoe is located in Tuckahoe, Virginia on Route 650 near Manakin Sabot, Virginia, overlapping both Goochland and Henrico counties, six miles from the town of the same name. Built in the first half of the ...
The 30-year mortgage rate dropped to 6.47% as of August 8 — its lowest rate in more than a year, according to Freddie Mac. While this is still a far cry from the 2% and %3 days of a few years ...
The Dover Slave Quarter Complex is a set of five historic structures located on Brookview Farm near Manakin-Sabot, Goochland County, Virginia. They were built as one-story, two-unit, brick structures with steep gable roofs for housing African-American slaves. The houses are arranged in a wide arc, measuring 360 ft (110 m) in length.