Faunsdale Plantation
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Faunsdale Plantation
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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°WCoordinates: 32°26′7.26″N 87°36′9.28″W / 32.4353500°N 87.6025778°W |
| Area | 13 acres (5.3 ha) |
| Built | 1844 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Carpenter Gothic |
| MPS | Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings MPS |
| NRHP Reference # | 93000602 |
| Added to NRHP | 13 July 1993 |
Faunsdale Plantation is a historic plantation near Faunsdale, Alabama, United States. The slave quarters on the property are among the most significant examples of slave housing in Marengo County and are among the last remaining examples in the state of Alabama. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 13 July 1993 as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.
The plantation was established in the 1830s by Messrs. Pearson and Henry Augustine Tayloe, who owned New Hope Plantation and co-owned Walnut Grove, Oakland (or "Woodville" it was then) and Adventure Plantations, in the Canebrake and would later race horses in Alabama and co-found the Louisiana Jockey Club, now the New Orleans Fairgrounds, with Bernard de Marigny in 1839. Henry Augustine, who later built St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Prairieville, Alabama) and served as Secretary of the Alabama Diocesan Episcopal Convention, was the local land agent for his brothers: Benjamin Ogle Tayloe of Washington DC and owner of Windsor, Sidson and Meadow Hill, in the Canebrake (father to Pvt Edward T Tayloe, later of Windsor Plantation, Canebrake); William Henry Tayloe of Mount Airy, co-owner of Oakland (or "Woodville" it was then) Adventure, later part of Cuba Plantation, and Larkin Plantation in the Canebrake; Edward Thornton Tayloe of Powhatan Plantation and owner of Oak Grove in the Canebrake; and George Plater Tayloe of Buena Vista Plantation (father of Maj. John William Tayloe, architect of nearby Hawthorne and buried Oak Hill Cemetery (Birmingham, Alabama); and Col. George E Tayloe-both of the Canebrake), owner of Elmwood in Arcola and co-owner Walnut Grove on the Demopolis Uniontown Road. These five brothers were sons of Col John Tayloe III of the Octagon House in Washington DC and grandsons of Col John Tayloe II who built the grand colonial estate Mount Airy in Richmond Co, Virginia. These brothers are "considered the most important pioneer cotton planters of the Canebrake, as to the extent of their enterprise there."
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