Dry Fork Plantation

Dry Fork Plantation, also known as the James Asbury Tait House, is a historic plantation house in Coy, Alabama, a two-story wood-frame house built between 1832 and 1834 in a vernacular interpretation of the Federal style. It was built for James Asbury Tait by two enslaved craftsmen, Hezekiah and Elijah, and its floor plan centers on a hall separating four rooms, two to a side, on each floor; Tait's own daybook records that the house required 25,000 board feet of lumber, 6,000 wooden shingles for the roof, and 12,000 bricks made from clay on the plantation. Dry Fork is one of the oldest houses still standing in Wilcox County and remains in the Tait family; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 under the name Dry Forks Plantation.