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
Area of Significance Exploration-settlement
Architectural Style Greek Revival
Area of Significance Historic and non-aboriginal
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
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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