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| Keywords: Elm Bluff Plantation Exterior 07.JPG Elm Bluff Plantation also known as the John Jay Crocheron House in rural Dallas County Alabama on the Alabama River Built in 1845 Crocheron was a native of Staten Island New York and the son of John Crocheron and Johanna Houseman Crocheron had relocated to Alabama by the 1820s He was elected as one of 12 directors for the Bank of Alabama in 1823 and 1824 He established a large plantation of many thousands of acres in Dallas County on the Alabama River across from Cahaba and built this house in the center of it He died in 1864 and the house has been long abandoned This image is of the exterior detail of the brick and stone work Crocheron had cut granite shipped here from New York for the window sills and door and window lintels Own 2008 Altairisfar Elm Bluff Plantation Pictures by Altairisfar | ||||
