Dry Fork Plantation, also known as James Asbury Tait House, is a historic plantation house in Coy,

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. The two-story wood-frame house was built between 1832 and 1834 in a

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style architecture. It was built for James Asbury Tait by two enslaved

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, Hezekiah and Elijah. The floor plan is centered on a hall that separates four rooms, two on each side, on both floors. Tait recorded in his daybook that the house required of lumber, the roof was covered with 6,000 wooden shingles, and the chimneys and foundation required 12,000 bricks, made from clay on the plantation. Dry Fork is one of the oldest houses still standing in Wilcox County and remains in the Tait family. It was added to the

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on February 26, 1999, with the name of Dry Forks Plantation.

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* National Register of Historic Places in Wilcox County, Alabama Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama Houses completed in 1834 Federal architecture in Alabama Plantation houses in Alabama Houses in Wilcox County, Alabama Historic American Buildings Survey in Alabama {{Alabama-plantation-stub