Twin Oaks Plantation
Vorlage:Infobox nrhp Twin Oaks Plantation, listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the Captain Nathan Carpenter House, is a historic plantation house near Eutaw, Alabama, USA. The house is a two-story wood-frame structure with a side-gabled roof. The front elevation features a two-story portico supported by four octagonal columns covering all five bays of the facade.[1] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 02, 1982, due to its architectural and historical significance.[2]
History
Nathan Mullin Carpenter's family migrated from Franklin County, North Carolina to Greene County, Alabama in the early 1820s. He was born on December 22, 1826. He served with the Eutaw Rangers during the Mexican–American War. Nathan was married twice, with the first to Catherine Cockrell on September 7, 1848. She died from yellow fever in 1849. He married a second time on January 8, 1851 to Marjorie Pippen. They purchased Vorlage:Convert of land for $10,012 on September 28, 1852 from John and Anna Rice. This is the property that would become Twin Oaks Plantation. The house was built in 1853 by a local builder, David Rinehart Anthony. Anthony's own house in Eutaw has strong resemblances to Twin Oaks, especially the octagonal columns. Nathan and Marjorie would raise eight children in the house, five before the American Civil War and three after it.[1]
In 1862 Carpenter organized a company of men called the Confederate Rangers in front of the house.[1] He was elected as captain of the unit. It would become Company B of the 36th Regiment Alabama Infantry.[3][1] The company would see action in the battles of Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Nashville, and the Atlanta Campaign. Nathan Carpenter died at Twin Oaks on May 5, 1907. Marjorie followed him on February 14, 1911. The house is now owned by the Bullock family, who have restored it.[1]
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Vorlage:National Register of Historic Places
- ↑ a b c d e Greene County Heritage Book Committee: The heritage of Greene County, Alabama. Heritage Publishing Consultants, Clanton, Alabama 2001, ISBN 1-891647-50-4, S. 89–90.
- ↑ Referenzfehler: Ungültiges
<ref>-Tag; kein Text angegeben für Einzelnachweis mit dem Namen NRIS. - ↑ Company B: 36th Alabama Volunteers. In: Munster roll in the collections of the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Along the old Federal Road, abgerufen am 12. Januar 2009.