Everhope Plantation
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Captain Nathan Carpenter House
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Everhope in 2003
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| Nearest city | Eutaw, Alabama |
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| Coordinates | 32°54′5″N 87°58′12″W / 32.90139°N 87.97000°WCoordinates: 32°54′5″N 87°58′12″W / 32.90139°N 87.97000°W |
| Built | 1853 |
| Architect | Anthony, David Rinehart |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 99000793 |
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| Added to NRHP | July 23, 1999 |
| Designated ARLH | December 21, 1977 |
Everhope Plantation, known throughout most of its history as the Captain Nathan Carpenter House and more recently as Twin Oaks Plantation, is a historic plantation house near Eutaw, Alabama. Completed in 1853 for Nathan Mullin Carpenter, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage due to its architectural and historical significance.
Nathan Mullin Carpenter's family migrated from Franklin County, North Carolina to Greene County, Alabama in the early 1820s. He was born on December 22, 1826. He served with the Eutaw Rangers during the Mexican–American War. Carpenter married twice, first to Catherine Cockrell on September 7, 1848. She died from yellow fever in 1849. He married a second time on January 8, 1851 to Marjorie Pippen.
Nathan and Marjorie Carpenter purchased 667 acres (2.70 km2) of land for $10,012 on September 28, 1852 from John and Anna Rice. The plantation's main house was built from 1852 to 1853 by a local builder, David Rinehart Anthony. Anthony's own house, built later in nearby Eutaw, bears a strong resemblance to the Carpenter house. The Carpenter house itself was an almost perfect replication of Pippen Place, built several years earlier by Marjorie's family. Nathan and Marjorie would raise eight children in the house, five before the American Civil War and three after it.
Carpenter organized a company of men called the Confederate Rangers on the lawn in front of the house in 1862. He was elected as captain of the unit. It would become Company B of the 36th Regiment Alabama Infantry. The company would see action in the battles of Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Nashville, and the Atlanta Campaign. Nathan Carpenter died on May 5, 1907, with Marjorie following him on February 14, 1911.
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