Cedar Grove Place

This property has had many owners.

• Cedar Grove Place was created by James G. Wood for his daughter Maria Louisa Wood and her husband Thomas Elam as a 120-acre farm and residence with the same name.^[3][5] The 120-acre tract was previously part of the 1,087-acre Plains Plantation owned by Joseph Dunbar.^[3]
• Benjamin Bevin reunited Cedar Grove Place with Plains Plantation.^[3] In 1854 he purchased Plains Plantation from David Hunt, and in 1858 he purchased Cedar Grove Place from the Elam family.^[3][5] In 1860 Mr. Beavin owned 84 slaves in Jefferson County.^[6]
• Adaline Balch bought the 120-acre Cedar Grove Place in 1873 after Mr. Bevin died.^[3]
• In 1938 it was purchased by Josephine Balfour Payne, who wrote children's stories, and her husband Earl Payne from Jeannie L. Bisland.^[3]
• Jane A. Warren purchased the property in 1972.^[3]
• It was bought by actor George Hamilton in 1978.^[3]
• A Hare Krishna commune occupied the property after George Hamilton.^[3]

The residence on the property began in about 1830 as a farmhouse and was greatly expanded during Mr. Bevin's ownership.^[3] The architectural style is at once Greek Revival and Federal.^[2][7]

Cedar Grove Place has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 28, 1979.^[4]

31°42′47″N 91°14′18″W / 31.712963°N 91.238366°W / 31.712963; -91.238366

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