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Photograph of Goodwin-Hamilton House
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Goodwin-Hamilton House

Built in 1850 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Goodwin-Hamilton House, near Sylacauga, Alabama, is a Greek Revival style house built around 1850. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”

Wikipedia article Goodwin-Hamilton House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Talladega County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1850, Greek Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Listed as. Goodwin--Hamilton House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Marble Valley Rd., Sylagauca, 35151
  • When was it listed? August 1986
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Benjamin H. Averiett Houses TR
  • Census division. Sylacauga
  • When was it built? 1850
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 86002041 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

84 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Goodwin-Hamilton House between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,512 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 24 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/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning48 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use55 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Arson/incendiarism45 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Talladega County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Goodwin-Hamilton House: 7 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Marble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Eureka White Marble Co. QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Sylacuga QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Adair & Brewer DiggingsIronPast ProducerResidual
Mcpherson's BankIronPast ProducerResidual
Sulphur Springs MountainIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Talladega 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

4 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
William Averiett House1.4 miles1986
William Watters House2.0 miles1987
Welch-Averiett House2.3 miles1986
Benjamin H. Averiett House2.9 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86002041 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Talladega CountyAll 27 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.