Cedar Crest

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Cedar Crest, also known as Cedar Crest Farms, is a Greek Revival plantation house located near Faunsdale, Alabama. It was built for Kimbrough Cassels Dubose in 1850 by Albert Prince, a slave.”
Wikipedia article Cedar Crest (Faunsdale, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. E. side Marengo Co. Rd. 51, .5 mi. S. of Co. Rd. 54, Faunsdale, 36738
When was it listed? August 1993
Category. building
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. 93000763 - 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

35 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Crest between 1995 and 2020, burning about 275 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	16
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	32 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Smoking	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190923-12
20 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2011	Flash Flood	Faunsdale	$75,000	State Route 28 was closed from US Highway 80 to Lindon because of flooding.
May 2003	Hail	Faunsdale	$75,000	Hail up to 2 inches in diameter was reported in extreme northeast Marengo County near Faunsdale.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Faunsdale	$9,000	A few trees were blown down and one landed on an automobile.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Faunsdale	$6,000	A few trees were blown down across northern Marengo County.
November 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Faunsdale	$3,000	Several trees were blown down along Highway 80, near Faunsdale.
April 2005	Hail	Faunsdale	$1,000	Penny size hail was observed near Faunsdale.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Faunsdale	-	Several trees were blown down around Faunsdale.
March 2022	Tornado (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 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Faunsdale	-	Several trees uprooted in the town of Faunsdale.
April 2003	Hail	Faunsdale	-	Penny size hail was observed just northeast of Faunsdale along the Hale and Perry county lines.
February 2009	Hail	Faunsdale	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Altwood	0.9 miles	1993
Cuba Plantation	1.0 miles	1993
Faunsdale Plantation	3.4 miles	1993
Cedar Haven	4.3 miles	1993
Cedar Grove Plantation	5.1 miles	1993
William Poole House	5.5 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000763 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marengo County	All 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.