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Photograph of Boxwood Plantation Slave Quarter
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Boxwood Plantation Slave Quarter

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“The Boxwood Plantation Slave Quarter is a historic building near Trinity, in Lawrence County, Alabama. The plantation was founded in late 1810s by Samuel Elliot, an Ulsterman who had originally settled in Middle Tennessee.”

Wikipedia article Boxwood Plantation Slave Quarter, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 20416 AL 20, Courtland, 35673
  • When was it listed? July 2013
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Hillsboro
  • National Register reference number. 13000470 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

69 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Boxwood Plantation Slave Quarter between 1994 and 2016, burning about 749 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 August 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150811-001
20 July 1997Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150630-003
29 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150701-001
29 June 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Boxwood Plantation Slave Quarter: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Phosphorus-Phosphates. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Monsanto Phosphate Deposit No.43Phosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
Plant 1 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this property

40 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Courtland, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2013Thunderstorm WindCourtland$20,000Thunderstorm winds snapped and knocked down six large wooden power poles.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindCourtland$10,000A few trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindCourtland$10,000A few trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindCourtland$10,000no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCourtland$8,000Trees and powerlines were reported down off of Jessie Jackson Parkway.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindCourtland$8,000Trees and powerlines were blown down in the Courtland community.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCourtland$6,000Large trees were downed and hail the size of dimes was reported.
October 1996HailCourtland$5,000no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCourtland$4,000Trees and powerlines were reporte down in the northern portion of the Courtland community.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindCourtland$3,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCourtland$2,000Trees were knocked down.
December 2000Thunderstorm WindCourtland$2,000Several trees were blown down near Courtland and nickel size hail was also reported.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCourtland$1,000A few trees and power lines were knocked down along Monroe Street in Courtland.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCourtland$1,000Power lines were knocked down on CR 150.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCourtland$1,000A tree was knocked down onto a home in North Courtland.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCourtland$500A tree and power lines were knocked down on Rosa Parks Street in North Courtland. Time estimated by radar.
December 2019Thunderstorm WindCourtland-Thunderstorm winds overturned an 18-wheeler on Highway 20 at the intersection of CR 150.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindCourtland-A measured 63 mph wind gust due to a severe thunderstorm at the Courtland, Alabama Airport.
March 2011HailCourtland-Nickel sized hail was reported.
September 2009Flash FloodCourtland-Heavy rainfall produced brief flash flooding in the city of Courtland.
May 2008Heavy RainCourtland-At the Courtland historical climate network site, 4.84 inches of rainfall was recorded beginning Monday night and ending at 9:30 PM.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCourtland-Several trees were blown down on power lines causing power outages.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCourtland-Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindCourtland-Three trees were knocked down near County Road 150. One of the trees fell on a car and pulled a power line down.
April 2006HailCourtland-Quarter size hail was reported.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindCourtland-Trees and powerlines were blown down. Time estimated.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindCourtland-A tree was blown down on Airbase Road.
June 2006HailCourtland-Golf ball sized hail was reported.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindCourtland-A tree and a few power lines were blown down due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindCourtland-A large tree was blown down by thunderstorm winds.
July 2004HailCourtland-Penny size hail was reported.
February 2003Flash FloodCourtland-Water over road on county road 150.
February 2003Flash FloodCourtland-County road 150 flooded with a few outlying roads closed.
May 2003HailCourtland-golf ball size hail reported
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCourtland-large tree and three power poles blown down.
July 1995HailCourtland-Large trees were downed and hail the size of dimes was reported.
June 1995HailCourtland-Three-quarter inch hail was reported at several locations across Lawrence County.
December 2005HailCourtland-no account filed
December 2000Tornado (F0)Courtland-no account filed
May 1999HailCourtland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Thomas Holland House5.7 miles1991
Bride's Hill7.8 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13000470 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lawrence CountyAll 12 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.