Lanark Plantation

  • Also Known As: Springhill
  • Also Known As: 1EE656

  • Address: 3050 Lanark Rd
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Historic District


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1820/00/00 Rev Peyton Bibb Home Peyton Bibb moves to Springhill where he will build a tanyard and grist mill, ferry supplies by flat-boat on the Alabama River to Mobile. He will also launch two steamboats, the MORGAN and the CAROLINA.
1822/04/17 Col Joseph Benajah Bibb Born Martha Cobb Bibb, wife of Rev Peyton Bibb, gives birth to a son, Joseph Benajah Bibb, at Spring Hill Plantation in Elmore County, Alabama.
1827/00/00 Rev Peyton Bibb Architect The original Lanark home began as a cabin built by Peyton Bibb.

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Particulars for Lanark Plantation:
Historic Use Agricultural fields
Historic Use Agricultural outbuildings
Area of Significance Agriculture
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Other Description Double pen tenant
Criteria Exemplar
Area of Significance Exploration-settlement
Architectural Style Greek Revival
Area of Significance Historic and non-aboriginal
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Information Potential
Owner Private
Historic Use Secondary structure
Historic Use Single dwelling
Historic Use Water Works



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 12th May 2008

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Lanark Plantation
Registry Address: 3050 Lanark Rd.
Registry Number: 08000543
Resource Type: District
Owner: Private
Architect: Bibb, Peyton
Architectural Style: Greek revival, Other
Attribute: Double pen tenant
Contributing Buildings: 7
Contributing Sites: 1
Contributing Structures: 1
Certification: Date received-pending nomination
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Agriculture, Architecture, Exploration-settlement, Historic and non-aboriginal
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering, Information Potential
Significant Year: 1818
Historic Function: Domestic, Agriculture, subsistence, Industry, processing, extraction
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling, Agricultural fields, Secondary structure, Water works, Agricultural outbuildings
Current Function: Landscape, Education, Recreation and Culture
Current Sub-Function: Conservation area Research facility Museum

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