The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-10-14

Lafayette Travelled over the Mount
! Neixs Road to receive his official re.
Ception from the State OF Alabama. IL
was on the morning of April ). 80.
re had been met at the Chattahoochee
River, by a detachment OF Alapa""i
militia under command OF Gen. jam
Woodward, then Adjutant-General' OIL
the state. A company of Indians.
hundred strong, escorted the party
They took turnsiat pulling the sulkey
In which the distinguished Frencnman
was seated. -
Tradition ana history tells OF the
night General Lafayette and his escort
spent at Mount Meigs. and the remnant
Of the. old wooden hotel in which nc
rested on the last stage of his 1ourneT
tc MONTGOMERY stands to this day
The General passed through Mont
gomery in pioneer times. The country
had been settled less than decad"
Wealthy immigrants from the oldcr
states mad come, and wealth and cui-
tire were only beginning 10 hhdNe
themselves felt.
But in 1926 the civilization OF Mon.-
romery County was pioneer civillza-
ton, with this difference only. that the
pioneers who came in were equipped ~
" ealth and family traditions.
In time and shortly. too. the pioneer
period gave way to the epoch OF prize
Old South. In this. the section of Mont
Eomery County lying to the east. hao,
as perhaps the entire county had, two
distinct eras. the pioneer and the opu-
lent.
Tho sarchitectures of the homes of
theses two eras have brought them
aownl as subjects of easy study to the
era infwhich the man of money could
rot build an imposing and luxurious
home, no matter what his wealth mgh {
be- The material for such a home
was not at hand and the skill to build
II had mot Sonae in with the wealthy
immigrants. Skill and material quickly
follows in the wake OF wealth ana
the years were few before some beau
fiful and handsome homes arose III
domination of the baronial estates that
lay on the one side or the other of the
Mount Meigs Road.
Pictures illustrate Eras.
The two pictures here printed are IL
Illustrative of the difference in home
building Of the two periods. The
smaller house was erected in the year
1918, and 1t is yet staunch and firm.
The handsome and imposing home that
urers the contrast WAS built about ten
years before the war, or near the year
1850.
Both are standing today within sight
of the old road. The larger house is
.ust beyond the city limits Of Mont
gomery. and is the residence of w. ~.
Henderson. prominent Montgomery
planter. The smaller and older houSe
is nine miles from the city and occupied
as bachelor quarters by Mr.. Pinkaton
for the superintendence of the exten-
sive plantation to which 1t belonged.
& The plantation is now the property or
the Marks estate, but Is leased by Mr..
( Pinkston. Both have stories that ap
real to interest and both stand as types
of the two eras OF Montgomery Coun-
tvs ante-bellum development.
The smaller house is. in I'LL probabil-
fly, the oldest house now standing In
/. Montgomery County. The plantation
en- which 1t stands was purchased at
Milledgeville Ca. August 10. when the
= Government opened the land in and
around Montgomery for settlement, ut
the same time Andrew Dexter made his
first purchase of the land on which
& the city of Montgomery now stands
At that time Montgomery and its
vicinity had only two or three huts. the
hard homes of A few venturesome pior-
GERS. which stood on the river bluff
near tho present West End.
In Georgia, Andrew Dexter, who be-