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Jemison-van de Graaf-Burchfield House, 1305 Greensboro Avenue, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, AL

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Jemison-van de Graaf-Burchfield House, 1305 Greensboro Avenue, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, AL

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Significance: The house is significant as the home of Robert Jemison, a major Tuscaloosa area planter who developed early coal and ore mines in the District and financed the development of transportation systems. Jemison reflects the divergent economic outlook of the planter class in Alabama. The primary remaining structure associated with Jemison, this house contained some of the earliest examples in the state of domestic technologies interior plumbing and a coal-fired gas illuminating system. Extensive papers document Jemison's activities.
Survey number: HABS AL-205
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72000185

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
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Location

Tuscaloosa33.20204, -87.56461
Google Map of 33.2020439, -87.5646087
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Library of Congress
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