Mount Ida, County Road 11, Sylacauga

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I. R. Baird. Previous Own.era: Mamie Flurnoy. From to Xirs. Walker Reynolds. From to Walker Reynolds. From to Date of Ereetion: (Probably Architect: Unknown. Builder; Walker Reynolds. Present Condition: Good state of preservation. The original house oonaisted of six rooms and two halls; Later t~jBe was an addition of four rooms and two halls. The old kitehen is oonnected to the house by means of a,~~~~ covered porch. Num.be:r of Stories: Two. Materials of Const:ru.ctio:n: Fram:e house with a solid brick foundation, composition shingle roof. It has six round fluted columns, with.inverted bell shape caps, the base of the colum.n.s and the front steps are of marble.slabs.

There is a balcony which extends across the front of the house, the iron lings used on this balcony were imported feom England. ~he interior walls are plastered and papered. The floors are of an heart of pine flooring. It has five exterior chimneys. '1:here are four French windows and a fanlight to each front floor. The transoms to each door contains twelve cut glass panes, with are reputed to have cost thirty five dollars each. The wooden material used in the constriction of this bu.ilding was selected and prepared by the slaves. The marble used was also quarrred fron this paantation. Other Existing Records: ALA - 442 Page 2. Additional Data: Mr. Walker Reynolds owned thirteen thousand acres of land, and three or four hundred slaves.

He operated a saw mill by water power, a gin by horse power, also a spinning room, where the clothes, used by the slaves were made. He mantj.factu.red the iron used on his plantation. The following outhouses remain intact, and in good condition; the ehicken hou.se, milk hou.se, bath, gin, smoke t earralge house, the old kitchen, and servants qu.a:a,ters. v The family grave yard is about one fourth of a mile, east of the hou.se and contains the tombs of the following: Hannah E. Reynolds, the wife of Walker E. Reynolds. Born Died The following inscription is on the west wall of a one room tomb in this grave yar,. "This monument is erected by a bereaved husband and dedicated to the memory of Eps;.v Reynolds who departed this life on the day of September in the year in the year of her age.

She was the dau.ghter of Churchill and Ma*y Gibson, late of Monree Coanty, Georgia. Her mother Gibson departed this life July 6, and her father November 14, Reynmlds was born in Warren County, Georgia on the of August in the year.1809 and was married to W.alker Reynolds on the day of April, At the time of her death she left an only child, Thomas H. Reynolds, then in the year of his age. "May that son whenever his eye shall rest on this inscription, remember the fond solicitude of his dying mother, and may that remembrance set his heart on virt11e and fix his thoughts on Heaven." This home was u.sed in the filming the nBirth of a Nation." Source of Material: Mr. I. R. Beard. Sylacauga. Alabama. Gompiled by: Katherine Floyd. Auburn, Alabama. Vaq.ghn. Birmingham, Alabama. Approved: E.

Walter Burkhardt, District Officer, HABS. Au.burn, Alabama. Date: