The Forks of Cypress was a Greek Revival plantation house near Florence in Lauderdale County, Alabama, built in 1830 to a design by architect William Nichols for planter James Jackson and his wife Sally Moore Jackson. The mansion was distinguished by a two-story colonnade of twenty-four Ionic columns and stood on a cotton plantation worked by enslaved people; it was later linked through Jackson family descent to the ancestry of author Alex Haley. The house was destroyed by a lightning-caused fire in 1966, and the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
Facts
Building TypeGreek Revival plantation house 1 LocationNear Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama 1 Completed Year Building Type
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Standing Status Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Wikipedia: The Forks of Cypress
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Alabama, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: The Forks of Cypress
Lead, first sentence, type clause
a large slave-labour cotton farm and Greek Revival plantation house
Lead, first sentence, location clause
near Florence in Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States
Sentence beginning 'Construction was completed in'
Construction was completed in 1830.
Introduction
Although the main house was destroyed by fire in 1966 after being struck by lightning, the site was placed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on April 14, 1992 and the National Register of Historic Places on October 10, 1997.
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