Cuba Plantation 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 ...
located in
Faunsdale,
Alabama
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It was built in 1850 by Andrew Pickens Calhoun as an overseer's house for this, his second slave plantation. He added about 420 acres to Cuba Plantation, purchased from
William Henry Tayloe
William Henry Tayloe (January 29, 1799 – January 7, 1871) was an American plantation owner, Horse breeding, horse breeder, businessman and Speculator, land speculator during the first half of the 19th century. He inherited a vast estate from ...
,
[JW Dubose, "Chronicles of the Canebrake", ''Alabama Quarterly'', Winter 1947] son of
John Tayloe III
John Tayloe III (September 2, 1770March 23, 1828), of Richmond County, Virginia, was a planter, politician, businessman, and tidewater gentry scion. He was prominent in elite social circles. A highly successful planter and thoroughbred horse b ...
of
The Octagon House
The Octagon House, also known as the Colonel John Tayloe III House, is located at 1799 New York Avenue, Northwest in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. After the British destroyed the White House during the War of 1812, the house ...
-called Adventure. His primary plantation was the nearby Tulip Hill. Andrew Calhoun was the son of
John C. Calhoun, seventh
Vice President of the United States
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, who frequented the Octagon House while in
Washington, D.C.
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as Secretary of War and later an independent outlier of the anti-Jacksonian
Whig Party, later realigning himself with the Democrats' policies. It was sold in 1863 to
Tristram Benjamin Bethea, who resided in
Montgomery County, Alabama
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. Originally a one-story structure, the house was later enlarged on the ground floor and a second story added by the Bethea family.
[Marengo County Heritage Book Committee: ''The heritage of Marengo County, Alabama'', page 15. Clanton, Alabama: Heritage Publishing Consultants, 2000. ] The house was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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on July 13, 1993, as a part of the
.
References
National Register of Historic Places in Marengo County, Alabama
Historic districts in Marengo County, Alabama
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
Houses completed in 1850
Houses in Marengo County, Alabama
Plantation houses in Alabama
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
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