Battersea (Prairieville, Alabama)

Battersea
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Battersea in 2008
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Nearest city	Prairieville, Alabama
Coordinates	32°30′37″N 87°42′11″W
Built	1845
Architectural style	mid-19th Century Revival
MPS	Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission
NRHP reference No.	94000698[1]
Added to NRHP	July 7, 1994

Battersea is a historic plantation house in Prairieville, Alabama. The house was built from 1820 to 1845 by the Vaughan family from Petersburg, Virginia and served as an early stagecoach stop.^[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district on July 7, 1994, as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.^[1][3]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. Marengo County Heritage Book Committee (2000). The heritage of Marengo County, Alabama. Clanton, Alabama: Heritage Publishing Consultants. p. 14. ISBN 1-891647-58-X.
3. Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings MPS NRIS Database, National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 2 December 2008.