Sadler Plantation House - McCalla, Alabama
N 33° 19.010 W 087° 00.822
16S E 498724 N 3686412
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Sadler House was built in 1817 in an old Indian field. It was later enclosed and remodeled by Isaac Worthington Sadler, planter and educator, for his 2300 acre plantation.
Waymark Code: WM1W05
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 07/17/2007
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The construction of the Sadler Plantation House was begun between 1818 and 1820 by John Loveless, a settler from South Carolina. After his death, his widow sold the two story clapboard-covered log cabin to Isaac Wellington Sadler. Mr. Sadler remodeled the structure and doubled its size around 1830. By 1860, the Sadler House was situated on an expansive plantation of 2,800 acres. During the Civil War, the house was spared by the Union troops known as Wilson's Raiders as they passed by after destroying the nearby Tannehill Furnaces.
Isaac Sadler was one of the founders of Pleasant Hill Academy and Pleasant Hill Methodist Church, as well as a trustee of Old Salem School. He and his wife, Martha Prude, had nine children. One son, David Scott Sadler was killed on a battlefield near Dalton, Georgia at age seventeen while serving with the Confederate Army.
The towering pecan tree in the backyard of the Sadler House was said to have been planted in 1852, when their daughter Alice Eulalia Sadler was born.
The Sadler House was donated to the West Jefferson County Historical Society in the 1970's by Mrs. Freddie S. Lipscomb, a Sadler family descendant.
Link to the Homestead: [Web Link]
History if no Link:
Frame clapboarding; 1-2 story sections over stone end chimneys, partially enclosed full-width shed entrance porch with rough-hewn tapered post, similar readshed section, simple architraves; original hardware. Example of transitional Federal/Gree Revival styling once popular with easly Alabama planters.
Additional Parking or Point of Interest: Not Listed
Structure Type: Not listed
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