Dry Fork Plantation

Dry Fork Plantation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Front portico of Dry Fork in 1939
Nearest city:	Coy, Alabama
Coordinates:	31°54′6″N 87°21′38″W / 31.90167°N 87.36056°W / 31.90167; -87.36056Coordinates: 31°54′6″N 87°21′38″W / 31.90167°N 87.36056°W / 31.90167; -87.36056
Built:	1834
Architect:	Hezekiah; Tait, James, et al.
Architectural style:	Early Republic
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	99000250[1]
Added to NRHP:	February 26, 1999

Dry Fork Plantation is a historic plantation house in Coy, Alabama. The two-story wood-frame house was built between 1832 and 1834 in a vernacular interpretation of Federal style architecture.^[1] It was built for James Asbury Tait by two slaves, Hezekiah and Elijah. The floor plan is centered on a hall that separates four rooms, two on each side, on both floors. Tait recorded in his daybook that the house required 25,000 board feet (59 m³) of lumber, the roof was covered with 6,000 wooden shingles, and the chimneys and foundation required 12,000 bricks, made from clay on the plantation. Dry Fork is one of the oldest houses still standing in Wilcox County and remains in the Tait family.^[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 26, 1999.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
2. ^ "Dry Fork". Wilcox Area Chamber of Commerce. http://www.wilcoxareachamber.org/history/dryfork.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-14.