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Coordinates: 32°29′4.99″N 87°42′49.64″W / 32.4847194°N 87.7137889°W / 32.4847194; -87.7137889
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Waldwic
MPS
Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission[3]
NRHP reference No.94000684[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 22, 1994

Waldwic, is a historic

forced-labor farm worked by enslaved people, Waldwic is included in the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.[3] The main house and plantation outbuildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1994.[1]

History

The house for Robert Gracey started in 1840 as "an unpretentious galleried farmhouse"

1860 United States Census of Marengo County indicates that Bocock enslaved 127 people in that year and the 1870s map of Hale County lists him as the owner still.[5] The Waldwic property was originally within Marengo County, but this portion of Marengo was added to Hale County upon its creation in 1867.[6] Robert Gracey's granddaughter, Bertha Gracey Steele, married at Waldwic in 1889 to William Micajah Spencer. He was a lawyer and was elected to the Alabama Senate in 1901.[7] The house is one of only about 20 Gothic Revival residential structures remaining in Alabama.[2] Other historic Gothic Revival residences in the area include Ashe Cottage in Demopolis and Fairhope Plantation in Uniontown.[1]

Gallery
  • Front and side elevation in 2008
    Front and side elevation in 2008
  • HABS photo of the main house at Waldwic, taken in 1935
    HABS
    photo of the main house at Waldwic, taken in 1935
  • Servant's quarters in 2008
    Servant's quarters in 2008
  • The same servant's quarters in 1935
    The same servant's quarters in 1935
  • Parlor windows in 1935
    Parlor windows in 1935
  • Parlor fireplace in 1935
    Parlor fireplace in 1935

References

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  1. ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-8173-1134-3
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  3. ^ a b Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings MPS NRIS Database, National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 6 March 2008.
  4. ^ a b https://sah-archipedia.org/detail%2Fcontent%2Fentries%2FAL-01-065-0017.xml?q=%28section%3AAL-01%29%20AND%20decade%3A1840s [dead link]
  5. ^ "1860 United States Census - Slave schedule, Marengo County, Alabama". United States Census Bureau. Rootsweb. Retrieved December 30, 2008.
  6. ISBN 1-891647-58-X
    .
  7. ^ Owen, Thomas McAdory (1921). History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Chicago: The S. J. Clarke publishing company. p. 1607.

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