Battersea (Prairieville, Alabama)

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Battersea
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Battersea in 2008
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Nearest city Prairieville, Alabama
Coordinates 32°30′37″N87°42′11″W / 32.51028°N 87.70306°W / 32.51028; -87.70306
Built1845
Architectural stylemid-19th Century Revival
MPS Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission
NRHP reference No. 94000698 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 7, 1994

Battersea is a historic plantation house in Prairieville, Alabama, United States. The house was built from 1820 to 1845 by the Vaughan family from Petersburg, Virginia and served as an early stagecoach stop. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district on July 7, 1994, as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission. [1] [3]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. Marengo County Heritage Book Committee (2000). The heritage of Marengo County, Alabama. Clanton, Alabama: Heritage Publishing Consultants. p. 14. ISBN   1-891647-58-X.
  3. Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings MPS NRIS Database, National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 2 December 2008.