Built in 1836. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
From the record
“Altwood is a historic plantation house located near Faunsdale, Alabama. Adams, whose wife was Anna Carter Harrison was the daughter of Carter Bassett Harrison, great-granddaughter of Benjamin Harrison V, great-great-granddaughter of Benjamin Harrison VI, and great-great-great-granddaughter of King Carter.”
Wikipedia article Altwood, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 29 National Register listings published here for Marengo County · listed in 1993 · category: Building · built in 1836.
Also known as. Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings MPS
Census division. Linden
When was it built? 1836
National Register reference number.93000598- 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
48 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Altwood
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 426 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
21
Debris and open burning
19
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Recreation and ceremony
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Faunsdale, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 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.
National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northeast Marengo County and determined that it was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum winds near 100 mph. A brief tornado touched down in a open field just south of Hinton Road near Faunsdale. Large branches were broken from hardwood trees along a treeline in the field with some uprooted trees on Hinton Road. The tornado tracked northeastward through open pasture before reaching the town of Faunsdale. A majority of the damage was focused along Main Street where the roof and exterior wall were removed from the Faunsdale Bar and Grill. Surrounding structures sustained partial roof removal and tin panels were peeled back from the roof of a metal warehouse.|Minor tree damage was also noted in this area. The tornado lifted shortly after as it crossed Church Street.
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
6 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.
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.
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.
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