Jemison-van de Graaf-Burchfield House, 1305 Greensboro Avenue, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, AL
Summary
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
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Location
Tuscaloosa, 33.20204, -87.56461
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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