Buena Vista Plantation, Autauga County, Alabama
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Location: Autauga County, Alabama
Surnames/tags: Black_Heritage Slavery Buena_Vista
US Black Heritage Index of Plantations
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Background
The Montgomery-Janes-Whittaker House, best known today as Buena Vista, is a historic Federal-style plantation house in Autauga County, Alabama, south of Prattville. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 25, 1974.[1] The house is currently owned by the Autauga County Heritage Association and operated as a historic house museum.[2] It's coordinates are 32.42444°N 86.45194°W.
Construction of the house was started in 1822 by one of the first landowners, either John W. Freeman or Josiah Huie. It was completed by the next owner, William Montgomery, in 1844. Mary Emma Scott Stewart purchased the property in 1910 from the Montgomery family. Jacob Janes then owned the house for two years before it was sold to the Fred Whittaker family in 1937. The Whittaker family restored and added modern amenities to the house. They owned it until 1978, when the house was inherited by M.W. Petrey, Jr. It was sold again in 1982 to the Union Camp Corporation, a pulp and paper company that allowed the Autauga County Heritage Association to preserve and maintain the house. Following Union Camp's acquisition by International Paper, the new owner donated the house to the association in 2007.[2][3]
Historic Building Photographs
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. AL-695, "Montgomery-Jones-Whitaker House, County Road 4 (Reynolds Mill Road), Prattville, Autauga County, AL", 19 photos
Owners
| John W. Freeman (abt.1780-) | 1822 |
| Josiah Huie | |
| William Montgomery | 1844 |
| Ann (Burrows) Montgomery | 1859 |
| Mary Emma Scott Stewart | 1910 |
| Jacob Janes | 1935 |
| Fred Whittaker | 1937 |
| M.W. Petrey, Jr | 1978 |
| Union Camp Corporation | 1982 |
| International Paper | 2006 |
| Autauga County Heritage Association | 2007 |
Slaves
1840 U.S. Census
No entry could be found for either John W. Freeman or Josiah Huie.
1850 U.S Census (Slave Schedule)
See Slaves of William Montgomery, Autauga County, Alabama
1860 U.S. Census (Slave Schedule)
There are three listings in the 1860 Federal Slave Schedule for Ann Montgomery in Autauga, Autauga, Alabama Territory as follows:
- One of the listings for Ann may respresent William and Ann's daughter Ann being one female slave aged 14[4]
- One of the other listing for Ann may represent the slave shared by her other daughters being one female slave aged 27[5]
- The final listing for Ann appears to match the 1850 Slave Schedule entries for her husband William Montgomery with a listing of approximately 107 slaves. See Slaves of Ann Montgomery, Autauga County, Alabama.[6]
1866 Alabama State Census
The purpose of this list is to identify any prior slaves who might have taken the name of the slave owners of Buena Vista Plantation. This list is of the Heads of Household in the 1866 Alabama State Census[7] where the criteria is that LastName = Montgomery AND Location = Autauga County, Alabama AND race = Colored
Research Notes
I have unsuccessfully searched for the two plantation owners prior to William Montgomery (Flamer-1 01:57, 2 July 2023 (UTC))
Sources
- ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009, #86001544.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Buena Vista History". Autauga County Heritage Association. Archived from the original on 2014-10-28. Retrieved 2010-01-23
- ↑ "Alabama Historical Association Historic Markers: Autauga County". Alabama Department of Archives and History. Archived from the original on 2009-03-17. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
- ↑ "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WKNF-2G6Z : 16 October 2019), Ann Montgomery, 1860.
- ↑ "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WKNN-WF6Z : 16 October 2019), Ann Montgomery, 1860.
- ↑ "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WKNN-WX2M : 16 October 2019), Ann Montgomery, 1860.
- ↑ "Alabama State Census, 1866," Query: https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=100&q.anyPlace=Autauga%2C%20Alabama%2C%20United%20States&q.race=Colored&q.surname=Montgomery&f.collectionId=1915987
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