Boligee Hill

Historic house in Alabama, United States

United States historic place


Boligee Hill
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The house in 1936
32°45′35″N 87°59′20″W / 32.75972°N 87.98889°W / 32.75972; -87.98889
Built	1840
NRHP reference No.	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

^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ ^a ^b "Eutaw Historic Pilgrimage 2007". GreeneAlGenWeb. Archived from the original on January 6, 2009. Retrieved December 10, 2008.
^ "Boligee Hill Plantation". Sankofa's African Slave Genealogy. Archived from the original on September 9, 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2017.

External links

Media related to Boligee Hill at Wikimedia Commons

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

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Greene County Courthouse Square District

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