Edmund King House, Highland & Bloch Streets, Montevallo, Shelby County, AL
Summary
Significance: This substantial brick house is associated with Edmund King, a planter and businessman who financed the earliest ironworks in the District. Edmund King was involved in the 1820 Thompson's Mill Forge on Shoal Creek near Montevallo. The primary remaining structure associated with King, the house represents the divergent economic outlook of the planter class in Alabama.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-6, FN-7
Survey number: HABS AL-438
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Benz, Sue, transmitter
Location
Montevallo (Ala.), 33.10443, -86.86145
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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