Faunsdale Plantation, Greek Revival plantation in Marengo County, United States
Faunsdale Plantation is a two-story wooden house in Alabama with a gabled roof, symmetrical wings, and grand columns in the Greek Revival style. The roughly 13-acre property includes the main house and several preserved outbuildings that show what 19th-century plantation architecture looked like.
A physician named Thomas Harrison established the plantation in 1843 and brought enslaved people from Virginia to grow cotton in the fertile Black Belt region. The estate was shaped from its beginning by the labor system that drove agriculture of that era.
The plantation records document the lives of 186 enslaved individuals by 1864, preserving detailed information about 35 families and their surnames.
The site is best explored by allowing time to visit both the main house and the outbuildings. It is worth checking in advance how to reach the property and which areas are open to visitors.
The owners named their estate after Faunus, a Roman agricultural deity. It is also notable that they donated land for St. Michael's Episcopal Church in 1844.
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