Stone Plantation, historic plantation house near Montgomery, Alabama, United States
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.
Barton Warren Stone, born in 1800, built the house around 1852 as one of three plantation houses he owned, calling it the "Home Place"; his parents had founded "Magnolia Crest" in Lowndes County in the 1830s. By 1860 he held 83 enslaved people, 5,000 acres in Montgomery County and 2,000 more in Autauga County, and the plantation had a cotton gin. L.C. Young bought the property in 1901 and Jesse D. Baggett in 1933.
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 house stands along the Old Selma Road on the outskirts of Montgomery, with the surviving smokehouse and mature camellias and azaleas on the grounds. The site is a private property with no visitor facilities, so plan to view the exterior and grounds from the road. The nearest services are in Montgomery.
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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