Stone Plantation, human settlement in Alabama, United States of America
Stone Plantation is a two-story brick house featuring Greek Revival design near Montgomery, Alabama. The structure is defined by a large portico supported by six wide columns and is surrounded by outbuildings including a surviving smokehouse, separate burial grounds, and landscaped grounds with mature camellia and azalea plantings.
The house was built in 1852 by Barton Warren Stone, a planter who owned more than 80 enslaved people and thousands of acres across Alabama. Following the Civil War, the property changed hands to L.C. Young in 1901 and later to Jesse D. Baggett in 1933, with the original structure remaining largely intact through these transitions.
The name Stone Plantation reflects the Stone family who shaped the estate in the 19th century. The layout of the site shows the typical arrangement of a working plantation, with the main house as a symbol of ownership surrounded by outbuildings and separate cemeteries that reveal the social structure of the era.
The property is located near Montgomery surrounded by trees and open grounds that allow for quiet exploration. Visitors should wear comfortable shoes as exploring the grounds, outbuildings, and surrounding gardens involves walking across the landscape.
Despite decades of ownership changes and neglect following the Civil War, exterior features such as windows, the building envelope, and the smokehouse retained their original form. This preservation offers visitors a rare direct view of how a 19th-century plantation actually looked in its working years.
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