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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)

 

Front Elevation

Rear Elevation

 

 

Old School House

 

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

 

 

Sources:

Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

 

National Register of Historic Places, Hale County, Alabama