Boligee Hill


Boligee Hill
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The house in 1936
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Nearest city	Boligee, Alabama
Coordinates	32°45′35″N 87°59′20″W / 32.75972°N 87.98889°W / 32.75972; -87.98889Coordinates: 32°45′35″N 87°59′20″W / 32.75972°N 87.98889°W / 32.75972; -87.98889
Built	1840
Architectural style	Other
NRHP Reference #	82002014^[1]
Added to NRHP	February 19, 1982

Boligee Hill, now known as Myrtle Hill, is a historic plantation house near Boligee, Alabama. The Boligee Hill plantation was established in 1835 by Dr. John David Means. He had migrated to Alabama from Newberry, South Carolina.^[2] Dr. Means had 110 slaves according to the 1850 Greene County census.^[3] The house was built in 1840.^[1] 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.^[2] The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 19, 1982 due to its architectural significance.^[1]

Gallery

Rear elevation in 1936
Detail of front entrance
Detail of staircase in entrance hall

References

1 2 3 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 "Eutaw Historic Pilgrimage 2007". GreeneAlGenWeb. Retrieved 10 December 2008.
↑ "Boligee Hill Plantation". Sankofa's African Slave Genealogy. Retrieved 10 December 2008.

External links

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. AL-209, "Boligee Hill, Near U.S. Highway 11, Eutaw, Greene County, AL", 15 photos, 2 data pages
Photograph of house taken after restoration

National Register of Historic Places in Greene County, Alabama

Historic districts	Greene County Courthouse Square District

Other properties	David Rinehart Anthony House Boligee Hill Gustave Braune House Capt. Nathan Carpenter House Samuel W. Cockrell House John Coleman House Coleman-Banks House Attoway R. Davis Home John W. Elliott House First Presbyterian Church Glenville Rev. John H. Gray House Greene County Courthouse Benjamin D. Gullett House Stephen Fowler Hale House William C. Jones House Kirkwood Dr. Willis Meriwether House Samuel R. Murphy House William Perkins House William F. Pierce House Littleberry Pippen House Edwin Reese House William A. Rogers House Rosemount St. John's-In-The-Prairie Phillip Schoppert House Thornhill Iredell P. Vaughn House William Peter Webb House Asa White House William B. Willis House Catlin Wilson House Daniel R. Wright House

See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Greene County, Alabama and List of National Historic Landmarks in Alabama

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