Borden Oaks, photo taken by F.C. Byrd July 2007 |
Borden Oaks
Also known as Locust Lawn. Listed on the National
Register of Historic Places Building #94000685
North of Co. Rd. 28, East of jct. with AL 14, Greensboro
Benjamin Borden was the son of Joseph Borden & Esther
Wallace born in Carteret Co., N.C. on 11 Dec. 1801. He
married Martha Thompson Cocke, who was born in Bremo, on the
James River in Virginia on 27 Mar 1808, the daughter of John
Ruffin Cocke & Mary Coleman Scott. Her first husband was
John Scott Gray who died on 19 Oct. 1835 in Eutaw, Al. She &
Gray had lived at a plantation called Locust Lawn on land given
them by her father. Upon Gray's death she married Benjamin
Borden on 3 Nov. 1845, who renamed it Borden Oaks. (Courtesy
F.C. Byrd)
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Old School House
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Col. Samuel Pickens Plantation Near Sawyerville, Hale Co.,
AL
Built about 1835; also known as Umbria
Data Card
Engineering Sheet
Exterior: Historic American Buildings Survey Alex Bush,
Photographer, April 11, 1935 FRONT VIEW (FACES NORTH)
HABS, ALA,33-SAWV.V,1-1
Front Porch: Historic American Buildings Survey Alex Bush,
Photographer, April 2, 1936 LOOKING W. ON FRONT PORCH
HABS, ALA,33-SAWV.V,1-8
Interior - Fireplace: Historic American Buildings Survey
Alex Bush, Photographer, April 2, 1936 S. W. CORNER OF LIVING
ROOM (GENERAL VIEW) HABS, ALA,33-SAWV.V,1-11
Old One-Room School House: Historic American Buildings
Survey Alex Bush, Photographer, April 11, 1935 OLD SCHOOL
HOUSE (FACES N.) ONE ROOM BLDG. HABS, ALA,33-SAWV.V,1-28
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