Boligee Hill, now known as Myrtle Hill, is a historic
plantation house
A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and e ...
near
Boligee,
Alabama
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. The Boligee Hill plantation was established in 1835 by Dr. John David Means. He had migrated to Alabama from
Newberry, South Carolina.
Dr. Means had 110 slaves according to the 1850 Greene County census.
The house was built in 1840.
It was acquired by the Hays family in 1869 and renamed Myrtle Hall for the
sweet myrtle growing around it. The property was restored in 2007 by the Beeker family and renamed Myrtle Hill.
The house was placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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on February 19, 1982, due to its architectural significance.
Gallery
Image:Boligee Hill 02.jpg, Rear elevation in 1936
Image:Boligee Hill 03.jpg, Detail of front entrance
Image:Boligee Hill 04.jpg, Detail of staircase in entrance hall
References
External links
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Photograph of house taken after restoration
National Register of Historic Places in Greene County, Alabama
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
Houses completed in 1840
Plantation houses in Alabama
Houses in Greene County, Alabama
Historic American Buildings Survey in Alabama
1840 establishments in Alabama
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