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Photograph of Faunsdale Plantation
Photograph by Altairisfar, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Faunsdale Plantation

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Faunsdale Plantation is a historic slave plantation near the town of Faunsdale, Alabama, United States. This plantation is located in the Black Belt, a section of the state developed for cotton plantations.”

Wikipedia article Faunsdale Plantation, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Marengo County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Marengo Co. Rd. 54 just W of jct. with AL 25, Faunsdale, 36738
  • When was it listed? July 1993
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings MPS
  • Census division. Faunsdale
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 93000602 - 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

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Faunsdale Plantation between 1994 and 2020, burning about 233 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use32 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2002Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarism22 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20120706-003

Every fire recorded in Marengo County

Storms near this property

11 since 2003

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2011Flash FloodFaunsdale$75,000State Route 28 was closed from US Highway 80 to Lindon because of flooding.
May 2003HailFaunsdale$75,000Hail up to 2 inches in diameter was reported in extreme northeast Marengo County near Faunsdale.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindFaunsdale$9,000A few trees were blown down and one landed on an automobile.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindFaunsdale$6,000A few trees were blown down across northern Marengo County.
November 2006Thunderstorm WindFaunsdale$3,000Several trees were blown down along Highway 80, near Faunsdale.
April 2005HailFaunsdale$1,000Penny size hail was observed near Faunsdale.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindFaunsdale-Several trees were blown down around Faunsdale.
March 2022Tornado (EF1)Faunsdale-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.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFaunsdale-Several trees uprooted in the town of Faunsdale.
April 2003HailFaunsdale-Penny size hail was observed just northeast of Faunsdale along the Hale and Perry county lines.
February 2009HailFaunsdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marengo 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Cedar Haven1.6 miles1993
Cedar Grove Plantation1.8 miles1993
Roseland Plantation2.2 miles1994
Cuba Plantation2.9 miles1993
Cedar Crest3.4 miles1993
Altwood4.3 miles1993

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000602 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marengo CountyAll 29 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.
  • 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.