J. A. Minter & Son Plantation, 3 County Road 462, Selma, Dallas County, AL

Significance: With various frame outbuildings (including a seed house, a corn crib and two other storage buildings) and the plantation store extent, J.A. Minter & Son's farm is representative of the plantation community common to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century South. Dating to the 1890s, the plantation's Tyler Gin Company is one of the few gin facilities continuously operating since the turn of the century.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N890

Survey number: HAER AL-192

Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: ca. 1890 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: after. 1960- before. 1969 Subsequent Work

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