Sadler House - McCalla, Alabama
N 33° 19.010 W 087° 00.822
16S E 498724 N 3686412
The Sadler House was built in 1817 in an old Indian field where it was later enclosed and remodeled by Isaac Worthington Sadler, planter and educator, for his 2300 acre plantation. The house contains a "prophet's chamber" for visiting preachers.
Waymark Code: WM1W2B
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 07/17/2007
Views: 93
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.
Street address:
3 Miles South of McCalla on Eastern Valley Road
McCalla, AL USA
35111
County / Borough / Parish: Jefferson County
Year listed: 1975
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Architecture
Periods of significance: 1825-1849
Historic function: Domestic
Current function: Work in Progress
Privately owned?: yes
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]
Season start / Season finish: Not listed
Hours of operation: Not listed
Secondary Website 2: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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