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Boligee Hill

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Boligee Hill, now known as Myrtle Hill, is a historic plantation house near Boligee, Alabama. The plantation was established in 1835 by the physician John David Means, who had migrated to Alabama from Newberry, South Carolina, and according to the 1850 Greene County census he held 110 enslaved people there. The house itself was built in 1840. The property was acquired by the Hays family in 1869 and renamed Myrtle Hall, then restored by the Beeker family in 2007 and renamed Myrtle Hill. The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 19, 1982, for its architectural significance. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Building Type
Plantation House 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Greene County, United States 2
Completed Year
1840 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 1
Building Type (category)
Plantation 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
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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.

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1. Boligee Hill (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boligee_Hill, lead definition
    Boligee Hill, now known as Myrtle Hill, is a historic plantation house near Boligee, Alabama, United States.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Boligee Hill, now known as Myrtle Hill, is a historic plantation house near Boligee, Alabama. The plantation was established in 1835 by the physician John David Means, who had migrated to Alabama from Newberry, South Carolina, and according to the 1850 Greene County census he held 110 enslaved people there. The house itself was built in 1840. The property was acquired by the Hays family in 1869 and renamed Myrtle Hall, then restored by the Beeker family in 2007 and renamed Myrtle Hill. The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 19, 1982, for its architectural significance.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1840)
    completion_date/completed = 1840
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Plantation house)
    Boligee Hill, now known as Myrtle Hill, is a historic plantation house near Boligee, Alabama, United States. The Boligee Hill plantation was established in 1835 by a physician, John David Means. He had migrated to Alabama from Newberry, South Carolina. Means had 110 slaves according to the 1850 Greene County census. The house was built in 1840. It was acquired by the Hays family in 1869 and r
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2. Boligee Hill (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Greene County, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Greene County, United States
Wikidata item Q4939436, property P131/P17 (location): Greene County, United States
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