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Marion, the county seat of Perry County, is located in the fertile Black Belt Region of west central Alabama. Under the 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson, the area was ceded to the federal government by the Creek Indians. Squatters and prospectors moved in until the land was put up for sale in 1817.
The Moore-Webb-Holmes Plantation is a historic active plantation on Alabama State Route 14 near Marion, Perry County, Alabama. The plantation began with 80 acres (32 ha) in 1819 and gradually expanded to thousands of acres. Although the main house burned in 1927, the outbuildings, barns, cook house and other buildings remain intact and preserved.
Plantation founded by Joseph Gee, a native of Halifax County, North Carolina, circa 1816 in an Alabama River bend that retains his last name to the present. It passed to his nephews upon his death. They transferred it to their relative, Mark Harwell Pettway, also a native of Halifax County North Carolina, in 1845 in order to settle a $29,000 debt.
English: This is a locator map showing Perry County in Alabama. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
Perry County is a county located in the Black Belt region in the central part of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census , the population was 8,511. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Marion . [ 2 ]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Perry County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a Google map. [1]
It is centered on the Perry County Courthouse and includes examples of Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Tudor Revival architecture. The boundaries are roughly along Green, Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Franklin, Clements, Centreville and Monroe Streets. [ 2 ]
Unincorporated communities in Perry County, Alabama (16 P) This page was last edited on 30 March 2013, at 02:49 (UTC). Text is ...