Meadowbank Farm located on Highway 84 in a bend of the Alabama River twelve miles from Monroeville, Alabama, between the towns of Claiborne and Gosport

The farm has 3,999 acres of land. Meadowbank farm includes four 1854 hune log cabins, a main plantation house built in 1910, and numerous out buildings. There is also a lake and a swamp, thousands of oak and pine trees and farm animals. The farm, owned by Ann Smith Bedsole, who in 1978 became the first Republican woman to be elected to the Alabama House of Representatives. Later, she was elevated to the position of Alabama State Senator, the first woman ever to fill that position.
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Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090).
Forms part of: George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.