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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: List of plantations in Alabama, Kenworthy Hall, Gaineswood, Thornhill, Everhope Plantation, Elm Bluff Plantation, Faunsdale Plantation, Rocky Hill Castle, Roseland Plantation, Joseph Wheeler Plantation, Fairhope Plantation, Pitts' Folly, Belvoir, Woodlands, Waldwic, Forks of Cypress, Goode-Hall House, Cedar Grove Plantation, Stone Plantation, Rosemount, Hawthorne, Alfred Hatch Place at Arcola, Borden Oaks, Altwood, Montgomery-Janes-Whittaker House, Wilson-Finlay House, Barton Hall, McGehee-Stringfellow House, Westwood, Hawthorne House, Noble Hall, Cedar Haven, Bermuda Hill, Kerby House, Allen Grove, Kirkwood, William King Beck House, Boligee Hill, Cedar Crest, Cuba Plantation, Tait-Ervin House, Dellet Plantation, Tristram Bethea House, Battersea, Augusta Sledge House, William Poole House, Dry Fork Plantation, Tanglewood, Liberty Hall, John Coleman House, Elm Ridge Plantation, Millwood. Excerpt: This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. Kenworthy Hall, also known as the Carlisle-Martin House and Carlisle Hall, is located on the north side of Alabama Highway 14, two miles west of the Marion courthouse square. It was built from 1858 to 1860 and is one of the best preserved examples of Richard Upjohn's distinctive asymmetrical Italian villa style. It is the only surviving residential example of Upjohn's Italian villa style that was especially designed to suit the Southern climate and the plantation lifestyle. It has a massive four-story tower, windows of variable size and shape with brownstone trim, an...
