Gaineswood at Demopolis, Alabama
Constructed over an 18 year period (1843-1861), Gaineswood evolved from a two-room “dogtrot” cabin into a Greek Revival style mansion. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1974. The home is currently operated by the Alabama Historical Commission as a historic house museum.
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Demopolis Alabama - A Drive in Town
Demopolis Alabama
Demopolis, the City of the People, was founded by a group of French expatriates, many of whom came to the United States after fleeing a slave rebellion on the sugar plantations of Haiti. Arriving first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, they petitioned the U.S. Congress to sell them property and received permission to buy four townships at $2 per acre with the provision that they cultivate grape vines and olive trees.
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Editing Gaineswood
Gaineswood is a plantation house in Demopolis, Alabama, United States. The house was completed on the eve of the American Civil War after a construction period of almost twenty years. It is the grandest plantation house ever built in Marengo County and is one of the most significant remaining examples of Greek Revival architecture in Alabama.
Demopolis Alabama - Bluff Hall
Demopolis Alabama
Demopolis, the City of the People, was founded by a group of French expatriates, many of whom came to the United States after fleeing a slave rebellion on the sugar plantations of Haiti. Arriving first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, they petitioned the U.S. Congress to sell them property and received permission to buy four townships at $2 per acre with the provision that they cultivate grape vines and olive trees.
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Part Seven, Historic Theater District can be seen at:
Part Eight, Whitfield Canal can be seen at:
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Welcome to Demopolis, Alabama
WELCOME TO DEMOPOLIS, ALABAMA... Demopolis is one of the oldest continuous settlements in Alabama. The town traces its beginning to the arrival of French exiles on July 14, 1817 who had come on an ill-fated mission of establishing a Vine and Olive Colony. In 1819, the area where the French had initially settled was surveyed into streets, blocks, and lots. The town was incorporated on December 11, 1821.
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Gaineswood in Alabama
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Demopolis Alabama - Riverside Cemetery
Demopolis Alabama
Demopolis, the City of the People, was founded by a group of French expatriates, many of whom came to the United States after fleeing a slave rebellion on the sugar plantations of Haiti. Arriving first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, they petitioned the U.S. Congress to sell them property and received permission to buy four townships at $2 per acre with the provision that they cultivate grape vines and olive trees.
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Part Two, A Walk in Town can be seen at:
Part Three, Confederate Park can be seen at:
Part Five, White Bluff Park can be seen at:
Part Six, Bluff Hall can be seen at:
Part Seven, Historic Theater District can be seen at:
Part Eight, Whitfield Canal can be seen at:
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Demopolis Alabama - A Walk in Town
Demopolis Alabama
Demopolis, the City of the People, was founded by a group of French expatriates, many of whom came to the United States after fleeing a slave rebellion on the sugar plantations of Haiti. Arriving first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, they petitioned the U.S. Congress to sell them property and received permission to buy four townships at $2 per acre with the provision that they cultivate grape vines and olive trees.
This is Part Two of an Eight-Part series on Demopolis, Alabama.
Part One, A Drive in Town can be seen at:
Part Three, Confederate Park can be seen at:
Part Four, Riverside Cemetery can be seen at:
Part Five, White Bluff Park can be seen at:
Part Six, Bluff Hall can be seen at:
Part Seven, Historic Theater District can be seen at:
Part Eight, Whitfield Canal can be seen at:
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Demopolis Alabama - Confederate Park
Demopolis Alabama
Demopolis, the City of the People, was founded by a group of French expatriates, many of whom came to the United States after fleeing a slave rebellion on the sugar plantations of Haiti. Arriving first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, they petitioned the U.S. Congress to sell them property and received permission to buy four townships at $2 per acre with the provision that they cultivate grape vines and olive trees.
This is Part Three of an Eight-Part series on Demopolis, Alabama.
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Part Two, A Walk in Town can be seen at:
Part Four, Riverside Cemetery can be seen at:
Part Five, White Bluff Park can be seen at:
Part Six, Bluff Hall can be seen at:
Part Seven, Historic Theater District can be seen at:
Part Eight, Whitfield Canal can be seen at:
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[Wikipedia] Lyon Hall (Demopolis, Alabama)
Lyon Hall, also known as the Lyon-Lamar House, is a historic Greek Revival mansion in Demopolis, Alabama, United States. It was built over a period of three years by George Gaines Lyon and his wife, Anne Glover Lyon. Lyon was an attorney and the nephew of Francis Strother Lyon, who maintained a residence nearby at Bluff Hall.
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Demopolis Alabama - Historic Theater District
Demopolis Alabama
Demopolis, the City of the People, was founded by a group of French expatriates, many of whom came to the United States after fleeing a slave rebellion on the sugar plantations of Haiti. Arriving first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, they petitioned the U.S. Congress to sell them property and received permission to buy four townships at $2 per acre with the provision that they cultivate grape vines and olive trees.
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Part Two, A Walk in Town can be seen at:
Part Three, Confederate Park can be seen at:
Part Four, Riverside Cemetery can be seen at:
Part Five, White Bluff Park can be seen at:
Part Six, Bluff Hall can be seen at:
Part Eight, Whitfield Canal can be seen at:
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Demopolis, Alabama | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:32 1 History
00:01:41 1.1 Colonization
00:04:32 1.2 American settlement
00:18:31 1.3 Civil War and aftermath
00:27:26 1.4 20th century
00:31:23 2 Geography
00:32:24 3 Transportation
00:34:12 4 Demographics
00:38:10 4.1 2010 census
00:42:11 5 Government
00:43:09 6 Education
00:44:15 7 Historic sites
00:46:25 8 Demopolis in the arts
00:48:44 9 See also
00:49:08 10 Climate
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Demopolis is the largest city in Marengo County, Alabama, United States. The population was 7,483 at the time of the 2010 United States Census.The city lies at the confluence of the Black Warrior and Tombigbee rivers. It is situated atop a cliff composed of the Demopolis Chalk Formation, known locally as White Bluff, on the east bank of the Tombigbee River. It is at the center of Alabama's Canebrake region and is also within the Black Belt.Demopolis was founded after the fall of Napoleon's Empire and named by a group of French expatriates, a mix of exiled Bonapartists and other French migrants who had settled in the United States after the overthrow of the colonial government in Saint-Domingue following the failed Saint-Domingue expedition. The name, meaning in Greek the People's City or City of the People, was chosen to honor the democratic ideals behind the endeavor. First settled in 1817, it is one of the oldest continuous settlements in Alabama. It was incorporated on December 11, 1821..
Demopolis Alabama - Whitfield Canal
Demopolis Alabama
Demopolis, the City of the People, was founded by a group of French expatriates, many of whom came to the United States after fleeing a slave rebellion on the sugar plantations of Haiti. Arriving first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, they petitioned the U.S. Congress to sell them property and received permission to buy four townships at $2 per acre with the provision that they cultivate grape vines and olive trees.
This is Part Eight of an Eight-Part series on Demopolis, Alabama.
Part One, A Drive in Town can be seen at:
Part Two, A Walk in Town can be seen at:
Part Three, Confederate Park can be seen at:
Part Four, Riverside Cemetery can be seen at:
Part Five, White Bluff Park can be seen at:
Part Six, Bluff Hall can be seen at:
Part Seven, Historic Theater District can be seen at:
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Moore Webb Holmes Plantation at Folsom, Alabama
The Moore-Webb-Holmes Plantation at Folsom, Alabama
West of Marion in the community of Folsom is one of Alabama’s last active plantations, one which has been in the same family since the early 1800s. William “the wagon maker” Moore came from South Carolina in 1819 and homesteaded in Alabama. Since then, his farm has grown from the original 80 acres into thousands of acres. Most of the buildings on this property are original and date to the 1800’s. The country store contains historic papers, a deed signed by Andrew Jackson, and other items.
A visit to this property is like traveling back in time. You get to see the log seed house used with the first cotton gin, the second cotton gin, a carriage house, a smoke house, a chicken coop, a potato house with a pit for the storage of vegetables, lard, and sausage, the plantation store with its pot-bellied stove and other items of interest, the blacksmith shop with its tools, the weaving house, the overseer’s house, tenant quarters, barns, a fire house with a 1930s fire engine, and much more in their authentic setting. You also see farm equipment, such as wagons, plows, planters, hay rakes, and other pieces. Tours are available by appointment. Visit HolmesteadCompany.com for details.
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Staatsburgh State Historic Site
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Staatsburgh State Historic Site is the elegant country home of Ogden Mills and his wife Ruth Livingston Mills. Sitting atop a grassy hill overlooking the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains, their house is a fine example of a great estate built by America's financial and industrial leaders during the Gilded Age (1876 - 1917). Also known as the American Renaissance, this period in American history was marked by America's rapid economic growth and emergence as a world power. Darius Ogden Mills, father of Ogden Mills, established the family fortune by investing in banks, railroads and mines. Ogden Mills, like his father, was a noted financier and philanthropist. In 1882 he married Ruth Livingston, whose family had been prominent landowners in the Hudson Valley since the 17th century. In 1890, Ruth Livingston Mills inherited her childhood home and property which had once belonged to her great-grandfather, Morgan Lewis, the third governor of New York State.
In the 1890s Mr. & Mrs. Mills commissioned the prestigious New York City architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White to remodel and enlarge their home. Work began in 1895 and when completed in 1896, the house had been transformed from a 25-room Greek Revival style home into a Beaux-Arts mansion of 65 rooms and 14 bathrooms. Although the interior was lavishly decorated, mostly in the styles of 17th and 18th-century France, many architectural features of the earlier Livingston home such as the all the trims, moldings and many of the fireplaces had been preserved. This melding of grandeur and heritage is characteristic of the American Renaissance period. Owning five homes, the Mills family resided in their Staatsburg home primarily in the fall and entertained as many as 80 guests at a time. The home and surrounding property was passed to their son, Ogden Livingston Mills in 1929. After his death in 1937 his sister Gladys Mills Phipps inherited the property and in 1938 donated the house and 192 acres of the estate to the State of New York as a memorial to her parents.
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West Alabama district attorney shot in Demopolis
Authorities say a county prosecutor was shot and wounded in rural western Alabama before officers fatally wounded the suspect, a former state trooper.
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Demopolis Chalk Bluffs
Alabama is home to a diverse and widespread variety of minerals. Chalk, a soft, extremely fine-textured variety of limestone, occurs in the Coastal Plain section of west-central Alabama. Originally formed as the floor of an ancient sea, the chalk can be seen along prominent bluffs on the Tombigbee River. White Bluff is a historic site located in Demopolis, AL, which owes its character and natural beauty to the underlying chalk rocks.